An exploration of the water cycle, skewed towards young readers.

You can read this one straight through as an informative text with the sentences in black type, or you can explore it as more of a concept book with the stamped-style words. ( )

Summary: Young kid book about water. A girl experiences water in its various forms, addressing it directly ("Hey Water!").

Personal Reflection: Nice use of action to engage younger kids in thinking about all the different ways water acts. Evocative descriptions of water's forms. Fog, for example, "drifts in the air and hides the world." Really easy to imagine captivating young kids with a good reading of this book. ( )

Hey, Water! talks about the water around our surroundings. The book mentions water weather formations that include rain, clouds, steam, dew, fog, and snow. Additionally, this book highlights the idea on how Earth’s composition is made up of majority water, in which can be connected within a science classroom as Earth is mainly 75% water. The book seems to cover weather and climate topics and biology as it provided water to be a part of every living thing. It may not be a great read towards middle school students, as it is geared towards early elementary aged readers, but it can be used with EL students to gain familiarity with water weather formations and vocabulary. Additionally, towards the end of the book, it provides in depth depictions of water cycles and water forms, such as solid, liquid, and gas, to give the reader more in depth information to the relationship that water has with other phenomena. ( )

This is a great book for younger students as it explores different forms that water can take in the world, walking us through liquids in the forms of lakes, rivers, and even dewdrops, to gaseous water such as fog, and frozen water such as icebergs. This is a great introduction to states of matter, particularly with water. It could also be paired with Water Protectors as an introduction to a unit on water and water ethics. The illustrations are captivating for a young audience as well, and there's a great water cycle in the back that can be used. ( )