Water Poetry (Summer Adventures 2023 Grades 1-6)Unpublished

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"A salty breeze seems to spring from the pages" in this collection of poetry and artwork celebrating the oceans (The Wall Street Journal).   Come down to the shore with this rich and vivid celebration of the ocean! With watercolors gorgeous enough to wade in by...

A 2006 Caldecott Honor Book  From spring's first thaw to autumn's chill, the world of the pond is a dramatic place. Though seemingly quiet, ponds are teeming with life and full of surprises. Their denizens--from peepers to painted turtles, duckweed to diving beetles--lead...

An Italian boy sips from a fountain in the town square. A hiker takes a refreshing drink from a mountain stream. Black-robed women in India stride gracefully through a field with brass water jugs balanced on their heads. Whether they squeeze it out of a burlap bag, haul it home from a communal tap,...

Seen from space, our planet looks blue. This is because almost 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water. Earth is the only planet with liquid water --- and therefore the only planet that can support life. All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part...

Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze,...

Faucet             well raincloud              sea ... from each of these comes water. But where does Water go? ...

"My name / is Water / but everyone / calls me Little Water." In this beautiful, poetic ode to the life-giving force of water, award-winning children's book author Jorge Argueta describes--in English, Spanish and Nahuat--the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop.From its birth deep in...

An Italian boy sips from a fountain in the town square. A hiker takes a refreshing drink from a mountain stream. Black-robed women in India stride gracefully through a field with brass water jugs balanced on their heads. Whether they squeeze it out of a burlap bag, haul it home from a communal tap,...

Water Rolls, Water Rises / El agua rueda, el agua sube