Laura Purdie Salas & Violeta Dabija
Water Can Be ...
Water is water, puddle, pond, sea. But now can you guess what else it can be?
Water can be a . . .thirst quencher, kid drencher, cloud fluffer, fire snuffer. Find out about the many roles water plays in this poetic exploration of water throughout the year.
Laura Purdie Salas’s lyrical, rhyming text and Violeta Dabija’s glowing illustrations make simple yet profound observations about seemingly ordinary objects and encourage readers to suggest “what else it can be!” Using metaphors for a leaf (tree topper / rain stopper), a rock (hopscotch marker / fire sparker), and water (thirst quencher / kid drencher), these insightful picture books creatively highlight a variety of roles and relationships in nature.
Millbrook Press
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Age 4+
32 pp
hc | 248 x 248 mm
Publication: 2014
Author: Laura Purdie Salas
Illustrator: Violeta Dabija
All rights available, excl. Chinese (simpl. & compl.), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
- Look inside
- Book trailer
- Poetic exploration of nature
- Bedtime story with
- Inviting children to guess and think for themselves
Awards
- Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title, Commended, 2015
- Texas Library Association 2x2 Reading List, Winner, 2015
- Minnesota Book Award Finalist, Short-listed, 2015
- Building STEAM with Día Book List, Winner, 2015
- Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices, Winner, 2015
- Black Eyed Susan Book Award Nominee, Nominated, 2014
“[A] contemplative and thought-provoking ode to the forms water takes and the functions it serves, both practical and whimsical.” —starred, Publishers Weekly, March 2014
“The text is perfect for creating mental images and showing children what the words look like. The traditional and digital media used for the illustrations create a delicate tone for the book. Each page has an ethereal beauty that brings the text to life.” —School Library Journal, March 2014
“Dabija’s illustrations, created with a combination of traditional and digital techniques and filled with simple shapes and vivid, vibrant colors, are misty, scratchy, sometimes-impressionistic, always atmospheric—in a word, beautiful….Kids of all ages will gain a new appreciation for water, and Salas and Dabija will surely gain new fans.” —starred, Kirkus Reviews, Feb 2014
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