Drip! Drop!

by National Geographic Learning

This book offers a thorough explanation of the water cycle and how water is treated before coming into the city water supply.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

Reviews

[Maureen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The illustrations are great. I love how the illustrator used multi-cultural representations, different abilities (scientist sitting in what seems to be a wheelchair), along with the main characters.

The information is presented well for a young audience.

What I don't care for is the negativity from the dog:
About the rain, "I love it too, when it STOPS!"
About allowing a faucet to drip water and waste it: "Only a DRIP would waste water!"

Yes, not everyone likes the rain and people do call other people names, but do we need to teach those behaviors? Those are mostly taught behaviors. Why spread negativity? Why teach children to call people disparaging words? Thankfully, those are the only negative attitudes in the book.

[Kelly Havens · Rating 5 out of 5]

JoJo and her dog, Willy, take readers through the steps of the water cycle and provide readers with experiments focusing on evaporation, water filtration, and condensation. This picture book supports science standards in “identifying how water exists in the air in different forms,” and even better, does so using “child friendly” terms. Tobin has also done a fantastic job of portraying each page using cheerful paintings. I think this is an excellent picture book to reinforce learning on the process of the water cycle.

[Kendra Loch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Drip! Drop! How Water Gets to Your Tap is a creatively written book about the process of water and how it gets to our faucets. The book shows how water evaporates and rises in the air as vapor and how the vapor forms clouds, and eventually the water vapor turns back into water. It then shows the different ways that water is collected and how water is filtered and treated. At the end of the book, Seuling includes three different experiments that kids can try.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bravo for a very simple, uncluttered text about the water cycle, reservoirs, waterworks, etc--this could potentially even be used in preschool! And certainly in K-2.