Drop: An Adventure Through the Water Cycle

by Emily Kate Moon (Author)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

A water ride like you've never experienced before, featuring the cutest drop of water in all of precipitation.

Meet Drop. She's water! And she's seen a thing or two. Yep, even dinosaurs; she's four and a half billion years old, after all. Everywhere Drop flows--and she flows everywhere--she keeps things moving, making life on earth possible, and having a great time doing it. (Have you ever plummeted from a rain cloud? Or took a thousand-year nap in a glacier? Drop knows how to live right.)

With delightful panache and a steady stream of funny one-liners, Drop takes readers on an adventure through the water cycle and beyond. Filled with irresistible artwork, funny asides, and a steady sprinkle of kid-enticing facts, Drop is the story about water you never knew you were thirsting for.

"Splashy and original." --Kirkus

"An endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle." --PW

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Publishers Weekly

Drop, an anthropomorphic water droplet portrayed as a smiling light blue ink splotch, is "four and a half billion!" years old. Drop greets dinosaurs, hangs out in the ocean, and sunbathes on the sea's surface before the action begins: a spread shows Drop heating from the sun's rays ("All bouncy-pouncy!" reads markered hand-lettering as she raises wiggly black line arms) before rising into the air with a "Poof!" Drop's journeys as clouds and weather follow, as well as her paths through bodies of water, glaciers, ground, and flora and fauna. Water "mixed only with various colors of India ink" is the apt medium for Moon's art; paired with ink brush lines, the illustrations have a soft early reader appeal. An endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)

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Review quotes

[Readers] will enjoy humorous wordplay while absorbing science. Splashy and original. —Kirkus

"Drop, an anthropomorphic water droplet portrayed as a smiling light blue ink splotch [provides] an endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle." —Publishers Weekly
Emily Kate Moon
Emily Kate Moon is the author and illustrator of Drop: An Adventure Through the Water Cycle. A writer, artist, and cloud-gazer, Emily loves to marvel at the wonders of nature, and writes and paints as a way to appreciate her world. She lives and breathes by the beach in Jupiter, Florida, with her two sons and their dog Romeo.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780803741447
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Dial Books
Publication date
February 16, 2021
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF028000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Humor | General
JNF037070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Water (Oceans, Lakes, Etc.)
JNF037080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Weather
Library of Congress categories
Hydrologic cycle

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