Water (First Discovery Books)

A fact-filled, brightly illustrated book introduces young readers to many facts about water with laminated pages that highlight a fire-fighting aircraft, a melting glacer, and a river that leads to the ocean.

Kindergarten-Grade 2?Both of these titles use plastic overlays that cover and change the full-color pictures on opposing pages. The illustrations, while bright, are a little flat and two dimensional. The books seem to be geared toward young children, but the vocabulary (glacier, evaporates) is challenging and some of the concepts are too complicated for that audience. The typeface on many of the pages is quite small. Of the two, Cars and Trucks is the more appealing. However, Donald Crews's Truck (Greenwillow, 1980) and Joanna Cole's Cars and How They Go (HarperCollins, 1983) are better selections on that subject. There are any number of easy-to-read titles about the water cycle.?William C. Heckman, Lake Forest Elementary, Hollywood, FL
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