Water Dance

by Thomas Locker

Overview

Travel with author-illustrator Thomas Locker and follow our planet's most precious resource—water—on its daily journey through our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780152163969
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/01/2002
Series:	Rise and Shine
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	400,161
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	310L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

THOMAS LOCKER has written and illustrated many award-winning books for children, including the companion titles Water Dance and Mountain Dance. He lives in Stuyvesant, New York.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A happy marriage of art and science."—School Library Journal
"Locker's paintings and text are poetic."—Kirkus Reviews
"Lushly romantic oil paintings . . . [and] poetic text, offer viewers a sensuous introduction to the water cycle."—The Bulletin

Editorial Reviews

"A happy marriage of art and science."—School Library Journal
"Locker's paintings and text are poetic."—Kirkus Reviews
"Lushly romantic oil paintings . . . [and] poetic text, offer viewers a sensuous introduction to the water cycle."—The Bulletin
—

From the Publisher

Water in its many guises and the scientific process that commands the shape it takes—liquid, solid, and gas—are the subjects of this collection of paintings.

A first-person narration covers the journey of water on its circular path, as streams, rivers, and oceans evaporate into fog and clouds, only to return to earth as rain: "I am one thing./I am many things./I am water./This is my dance through our world." Of most interest but relegated to the back of the book are endnotes by Candace Christiansen (with Locker, Sky Tree, 1995) explaining scene-by-scene the various phenomena the painter's brush has recorded, e.g., a brilliant scarlet sunset is the result of low-angled sunlight passing through layers of water vapor. Locker's paintings and text are poetic, but both have a languid, slightly static quality to them. Unlike Sky Tree, in which science facts were incorporated into the body of the text, the paintings don't illustrate the text in any true sense, but sit on the page.

Kirkus Reviews