How Does Water Move Around?: A Book About the Water Cycle

by Madeline J. Hayes, Srimalie Bassani (Illustrator)

Overview

Have you ever wondered how water moves around on Earth?

An introduction to the water cycle including precipitation, evaporation, condensation, and more is explored through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series. 

About the How Do series: These fully illustrated nonfiction picture books are a great introduction to various STEM topics. Each title includes facts and figures, simple diagrams and hilarious illustrations and is written in a question-and-answer format to encourage readers to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind the correct answers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781486725656
Publisher:	Flowerpot Press
Publication date:	03/21/2023
Series:	How Do?
Pages:	36
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	880L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Madeline Hayes is a self-described science nerd. She loves it! Especially biology and chemistry. She has a B.S. with Honors in chemical and biomolecular engineering, pre-medicine and a minor in chemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, class of 2018. Madeline has expertise in engineering, chemistry, and mass cytometry and works using these skills to assist with research at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She isn’t sure where her work and learning will take her, but she knows science will be at the core of her career and she credits that love of science to the many awesome teachers she’s had through the years.

Srimalie Bassani lives and works in Mantova, Italy. Her mother has always encouraged her artistic expression, and she is the inspiration for her passion. Her work is full of surprises. She always tries to diversify her style based on every story she illustrates. It's almost impossible to remove her from her writing desk, where she keeps a stack of books and teacups of many colors.

Editorial Reviews

2022-11-29
An introduction to the water cycle designed for a multilevel audience.

Cued not only by changes in type size and text density, but also language ranging from transparently silly questions (“Why do clouds start to rain? Is it because giants are crying in the sky?”) to explanations of, for example, the role of plant stomata in transpiration, this overview aims wide and combines clear explanations with repetition to make its shower of basic facts easy to absorb. In Bassani’s cartoon illustrations, a cast diverse in age, race, and species poses next to helpful diagrams, demonstrates ways of conserving water around the house, and encourages young hands-on sorts to follow directions for constructing a simple “water cycle in a bag” project. Aside from supplying only a lower range for the weight of an average cumulus cloud (1.1 million pounds, but some published estimates come in at much higher numbers), Hayes is careful with specifics. But readers expecting an answer to one character’s question, “Where does all this water come from?” or a link—which the author fails to draw in discussing why we need to conserve it—between droughts and climate change will be frustrated by the lack of leads to deeper resources. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A methodical, if not exceptional, addition to the abundant stream of books on the topic. (Informational picture book. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews

" A great book to help children be more mindful about water and how humans can affect the water cycle in positive or negative ways."

—All Done Monkey, Blog

"An introduction to the water cycle designed for a multilevel audience."

From the Publisher