Water: Discovering The Precious Resource All Around Us

WAterThis question-and-answer book features a young girl and her grandfather exploring water’s role in world history and earth science. Topics include: How much water is there on earth? Why does it rain? How are rainbows and water related? How is a sea different from an ocean? What lives in our oceans? How powerful is water? What is life without water? How can we protect our planet’s water? The answers offer many vocabulary words clearly explained in the energetic text. The book’s endpapers reveal fascinating water facts. To illustrate the book, the author/artist sprinkled, dripped, and thinned acrylic paints with water. Approximately ten liters (2.6 gallons) of water were used to create the book’s gorgeous artwork. mjw
Title: Water: Discovering The Precious Resource All Around Us
Author: Olga Fadeeva
Illustrator
: Olga Fadeeva
Publisher
: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. Grand Rapids, Michigan
Copyright
: 2024
Original Language
: Russian
Translator
: Lena Traer
Original Title
: Boda
Original Publisher
: Rech
Original Copyright
: 2022
ISBN
: 978-0-8028-5622-7
Hardcover pages
: 56
Age range
: 8-14
Genre
: Picture Book, Nonfiction, Information Book
Author’s ethnicity
: Russian
Author’s residence
: St. Petersburg, Russia
Illustrator’s ethnicity
: Russian
Illustrator’s residence
: St. Petersburg, Russia
Subjects
: Earth Science, Ecology, History, Natural resources, Nature, Oceans, Rain, Science, Seas, STEAM. Weather

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