| for the youngest child |
| Call No. |
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| 010141 |
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Cole, Joanna and Bruce Degen. The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks. New York: Scholastic, 1986.
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a trip to the city waterworks that is anything but normal. She drives the magic schoolbus into a cloud, and the children fall like raindrops and are processed as part of the city’s water supply. Ingenious.
Gr. Preschool-2. |
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| 010143 |
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Ross, Michael Elsohn and Gustav Moore. Re-Cycles. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 2002.
The life cycle of a tree and a drop of water are used to explain the changes that the Earth’s soil and water go through over time. This book also contains information on composting.
Gr. K-3. |
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| 010148 |
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Nelson, Robin. The Water Cycle. Minneapolis, Minn.: Lerner Publications Company, 2003.
From cloud vapor to oceans, the cycle of water on Earth is shown in vivid images and simple sentences that will have younger readers thinking about what goes on in the world around them.
Gr. K-2. |
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| 010151 |
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Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner. What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids and Gases. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.
This addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series introduces the youngest readers to an important science concept: the differences between solids, liquids, and gases.
Gr. K-3. |
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| 010154 |
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Locker, Thomas. Water Dance. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.
Beautiful illustrations accompany a poem about the different roles of water on our planet. Explanations are given at the end of the story about each particular phase in the water cycle. Truly a "marriage of art and science."
Gr. K-4. |
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| 010155 |
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Asch, Frank. Water. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Simple sentences accompany magnificent watercolor illustrations in this book that stresses the importance of water in everyday life. A lovely introduction to water in its various forms.
Gr. Preschool-2. |
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| 010156 |
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Michel, François and Yves Larvor. Water. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1993.
Readers will have an interactive experience with pop-ups, pull-tabs, and lift-the-tab pages in this book. Abundant with facts for older children and entertaining for pre-readers this book has wide appeal. Each section deals with a different aspect of water-for life, underground, in the city, water power and the seacoast.
Gr. Preschool-5. |
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| 030738 |
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Schmid, Eleonore. The Water's Journey. New York: North-South Books, 1990.
Appreciation for water as a resource is at the heart of this book, which follows water flow from a snowy mountaintop down to the sea to explain the water cycle and show who uses water and for what purposes.
Gr. Preschool-2. |
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| 030739 |
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Waldman, Neil. The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 2003.
The beautiful illustrations in this book help the reader visualize the changes in water through the four seasons--and understand the water cycle.
Gr. K-3. |
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| 030744 |
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Branley, Franklyn M. Down Comes the Rain. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.
A straightforward explanation of how the water cycle works, detailing what happens at each step. Includes both text and cartoon-bubble dialog.
Gr. 1-4. |
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| for the middle years |
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| 010138 |
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Hooper, Meredith and Chris Coady. The Drop in My Drink: The Story of Water on Our Planet. New York: Viking, 1998.
An interesting book that follows the path of one drop of water from the creation of Earth up to the present day. Focuses on the concept that all the water that has been and is on the planet is all the water we will ever have.
Gr. 3-5. |
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| 010142 |
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Wick, Walter. A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder. New York: Scholastic, 1997.
Walter Wick’s photographs of water in all its fantastic forms are the highlight of this book that seeks to explain concepts like surface tension, adhesion, capillary attraction, molecular motion, freezing, evaporation, and condensation from a visual perspective.
Gr. 3-6. |
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| 010145 |
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Stwerktka, Eve and Albert. Drip Drop: Water’s Journey. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Julian Messner, 1991.
The flow of water into and out of a home is the topic of this book which features many simple experiments for kids to do relating to water properties and flow.
Gr. 3-6. |
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| 010146 |
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Greenaway, Theresa. The Water Cycle. Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2001.
This well-illustrated look at water is a valuable teaching tool as it features sections on the water cycle and water properties, conservation and pollution.
Gr. 3-6. |
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| 010147 |
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Trueit, Trudi Strain. The Water Cycle. New York: F. Watts, 2002.
An in-depth look at the ways in which water is essential to life on our planet. Includes interesting subsections on water in space, the ocean’s effect on climate, artesian well water, and more.
Gr. 4-7.
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