Drop: An Adventure through the Water Cycle

by Emily Kate Moon

Overview

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
"A stand out from others of its type." —SLC
“An endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle.” —PW

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803741447
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/16/2021
Series:	A Science Pals Book , #1
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	136,645
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD510L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Emily Kate Moon has always been a big fan of water. She's been drinking it and splashing in it all her life! But growing up in California during a long drought meant she didn't see much of it fall from the sky. It wasn't until Emily moved to Florida that she met Drop, who showed her a thing or two about the water cycle. Emily is a cloud-gazer and artist. She loves to marvel at the wonders of nature, and writes and paints as a way to appreciate her world. She lives by the beach in Jupiter, Florida, with her two sons and their dog Romeo—who is, as it happens, afraid of water!

Editorial Reviews

02/22/2021

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.)

Publishers Weekly

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

"A stand out from others of its type as it maintains simplicity rather than getting bogged down in exotic settings, cute animals, or complicated terminology. . . . Perfect for a science lesson read-aloud for young learners." —SLC

“Drop, an anthropomorphic water droplet portrayed as a smiling light blue ink splotch [provides] an endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2020-12-25
An anthropomorphic drop of water takes readers through this basic explanation of Earth’s water cycle.

The initial pages predict the perfectly chosen medium of watercolor art throughout. The verso is fully packed with attractive, wavy lines of blue that contain random blotches of the same hue. The white recto shows the same small, round splash of blue shown on the cover, with dots for eyes, a simple smile, and spindly limbs. The main text reads, “This is water.” Black ink lettering nearer to the water droplet allow the droplet a comment: “Hi! I’m Drop!” The next set of pages uses the figure 4,500,000,000 as well as the spelled-out words for the number to show the probable age, in years, of water on the planet. Benign cartoon dinosaurs in upbeat colors add emphasis. Careful design throughout shows all forms of water storage—and release—on Earth. When Drop is warmed by the sun, “she gets all warm and wiggly.” She is invisible for a while, after which some friends join her so they can create clouds and, finally, precipitation—a word never mentioned. Nor are evaporation or condensation. This implies a fairly young audience, as does the cuteness of Drop and her friends. However, the text is a tad too garrulous and pedantic for the youngest readers. In addition, the narrated text—and especially Drop herself—often uses humorous, sophisticated wordplay that further muddies the readership waters. (This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-18-inch double-page spreads viewed at 20.8% of actual size.)

A striking but somewhat slushy concoction. (Informational picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews