Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World

by Christy Hale, Christy Hale (Illustrator)

Overview

A lake turns into an island.

A cozy bay into a secluded cape.

A gulf with sea turtles transforms into a peninsula surrounded by pirate ships.

This unique information book for the very young switches between bodies of water and corresponding land masses with the simple turn of a page. Readers will delight as the story of Water Land unfolds and will see just how connected the earth and the water really are.

This book has Common Core connections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250152442
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	05/22/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

CHRISTY HALE has illustrated many picture books and is also the author of The East-West House. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and their daughter.

CHRISTY HALE has illustrated many picture books and is also the author of The East-West House. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and their daughter.

Editorial Reviews

*"There are fun details to pore over in each textured picture, which draw on Hale’s particular skill with nature scenes, and the pages are sturdy, well designed, and quite charming."—Booklist, starred review

From the Publisher

2018-03-04
As the subtitle indicates, Hale contrasts five water forms with five landforms in her minimalist informational picture book.On the verso of the first double-page spread, a child revels in a windy swirl of falling maple leaves against a butter-yellow background, while on the recto another lounges in a boat on a small, clear blue body of water. The word "lake" is printed in boldface type above that body of water, the color precisely matching that of the water. Turning the page, readers see the lake is actually a die cut: the lake-shaped hole from the previous page is now an island-shaped hole, filled in with the yellow background from the previous spread. The word "island" sits underneath, its color matching the sands of the landform it represents. Hale's art is playful and appealing but never overwhelming or distracting as she uses the die cuts and precise color to establish unmistakable visual connections. A diversity of skin tones and implied genders are included in each spread, although there is no diversity of body shape nor visual hints at disability. Logically, the concepts depend on forms where land and water meet: lake and island, bay and cape, strait and isthmus, system of lakes and archipelago, gulf and peninsula. An end foldout provides a map, form definitions, and example locations across the globe.The die cuts dividing water from land are vulnerable to little hands, but their value more than delivers. (Informational picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews