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A Drop of Water
A child crouches beside a meadow brook, and a drop of water collects and falls from the child’s fingertip to continue on its journey. Where does that journey begin? High in the sky, rain clouds are parting. Water trickles and flows down the mountain, collecting in an upland bog, seeping through a beaver’s dam, rushing over rocks, passing many plants and animals along its winding way—each dependent on water and the different environments it shapes to live. Author and illustrator Gordon Morrison has captured a single moment in time, revealing the course and influence of water, and inviting readers to pause and consider the world around them in this beautiful and lyrical appreciation of nature and the resource that makes it all possible—a drop of water.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published October 23, 2006
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April 25, 2016
I love the illustrations in this book!
March 22, 2020
If you are searching for an engaging book attractive to elementary and secondary students, you will be delighted to read A Drop of Water by Gordon Morrison. This picturesque book includes black and white visual elements, detailed sketches, aesthetic dimensions, color spectrums, and habitat harmony depicting an accurate representation of its rural surroundings.
Clever illustrations engage the reader with vibrant colors, while strokes of grayscale allow the reader to imagine and ponder the possibilities of the wildlife, plants, and scenery in pleasant, natural communities. With emphasis on setting and landscape, this book enhances awareness celebrated during Earth Day and the environment throughout the year.
Supplementing the text with rich tidbits of information, the page layout, text, and glossary augment the content. Academically accurate for the scientific mind, this book also welcomes readers of all ages, interests, and abilities. More than the cycle of life, the essential survival of plants and animals depends on A Drop of Water.
Travel through a lush or lean landscape with the poetic language replenishing your scientific curiosity and creative investigation into the lives of plants and animals. The metaphors thread the fragrance, sound, and texture of a meadow or the rough birch tree bark weaving and connecting all life forms. You will be inspired to creatively investigate your backyard or community.
Ideal for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) curricular goals, books by Gordon Morrison support the makerspace movement, offer strategies for differentiation, and connect beyond a central idea. Science in stories, poetry on the pond, and art in literature examine and reflect on the simple beauty of life in your world. Raise your ecological knowledge and celebrate conservation with preservation information. Complete with relevant vocabulary and a wealth of resources Morrison crafted meaningful and memorable stories.
Respectfully submitted,
Carmaine Ternes
Librarian, Author, Presenter, Book Reviewer
“A child who reads will be an adult who thinks!
Clever illustrations engage the reader with vibrant colors, while strokes of grayscale allow the reader to imagine and ponder the possibilities of the wildlife, plants, and scenery in pleasant, natural communities. With emphasis on setting and landscape, this book enhances awareness celebrated during Earth Day and the environment throughout the year.
Supplementing the text with rich tidbits of information, the page layout, text, and glossary augment the content. Academically accurate for the scientific mind, this book also welcomes readers of all ages, interests, and abilities. More than the cycle of life, the essential survival of plants and animals depends on A Drop of Water.
Travel through a lush or lean landscape with the poetic language replenishing your scientific curiosity and creative investigation into the lives of plants and animals. The metaphors thread the fragrance, sound, and texture of a meadow or the rough birch tree bark weaving and connecting all life forms. You will be inspired to creatively investigate your backyard or community.
Ideal for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) curricular goals, books by Gordon Morrison support the makerspace movement, offer strategies for differentiation, and connect beyond a central idea. Science in stories, poetry on the pond, and art in literature examine and reflect on the simple beauty of life in your world. Raise your ecological knowledge and celebrate conservation with preservation information. Complete with relevant vocabulary and a wealth of resources Morrison crafted meaningful and memorable stories.
Respectfully submitted,
Carmaine Ternes
Librarian, Author, Presenter, Book Reviewer
“A child who reads will be an adult who thinks!
October 25, 2017
Summary:
The story begins with a drop of water falling from a young boy's finger. The boy wonders where the water comes from. The author then begins telling the story of the water cycle. The story continues through different landscapes and shows that the water cycle makes life on Earth possible.
Evaluation:
The illustrations in this book focus on water, plants, and animals. The background of each picture is gray and white, but the illustrator uses blues, greens, and browns to draw attention to the water, plants, and animals. The author uses adjectives to describe what is happening as water moves throughout the water cycle.
Teaching Point:
This book integrates literacy and science. Students could use this book to investigate the water cycle as it moves across different landscapes. The book also contains many words ending in -ing. Students could go through the book and write all of the -ing words. Then, they could write the root word.
The story begins with a drop of water falling from a young boy's finger. The boy wonders where the water comes from. The author then begins telling the story of the water cycle. The story continues through different landscapes and shows that the water cycle makes life on Earth possible.
Evaluation:
The illustrations in this book focus on water, plants, and animals. The background of each picture is gray and white, but the illustrator uses blues, greens, and browns to draw attention to the water, plants, and animals. The author uses adjectives to describe what is happening as water moves throughout the water cycle.
Teaching Point:
This book integrates literacy and science. Students could use this book to investigate the water cycle as it moves across different landscapes. The book also contains many words ending in -ing. Students could go through the book and write all of the -ing words. Then, they could write the root word.
August 11, 2020
GREAT story telling for young children. This should be an elementary science class go to book for the water cycle & also how water flows from the mountains on down & all the bodies of water on it's way on it's journey.
September 23, 2021
Detailed story that shows the connections of a drop of water
September 5, 2025
This is a REALLY fun book to read with your kids, but it is less about the water cycle and more about the flow of water and nature that surrounds it. The illustrations are very engaging.
March 8, 2011
This book explores, in narrative form, many different habitats and the relationship that water has to each of them. It starts with a child at a brook, moves to a red-tailed hawk soaring over fields and streams, and enters an evergreen forest with bogs and swamps and the amazing wealth of life that their water supports. I love seeing some of the lesser-known species that Morrison highlights: pitcher plants, a long-tailed weasel, yellow pond lilies, and eventually, Holstein cows from a nearby farm. This is a simple book in that it merely describes what is happening in the pictures. There is no overt environmental message about our dependency on water, but that message is certainly to be gleaned if one wishes to do so. So if you wanted to teach this book to a 2nd or 3rd-grade class, a teacher's perceptive questions could prompt students to draw their own conclusions about water's importance. But if you wanted to teach it to a four-year-old, you could stick with what the book actually depicts and keep it sweet and simple.
June 11, 2016
AMAZING Storytelling and Artistry. FABULOUS for up to age 10, teaching children to adore the natural world around them. This should be in every child's bookshelf. For adults to remember the childhood pleasures of puddle stomping, frogs, climbing trees, and myriad delights. Gordon Morrison is a world renowned artist whose exquisite drawings negate the need for binoculars, telescopes, or hot air balloons. Known for unbelievable levels of detail and accuracy his subjects are no better represented in the best botanical tomes. The clarity and beauty in these books make them a treasure for all to enjoy many times over. A fabulous gift to give for the student, teacher, gardener, nature lover, art lover, yearning artist, or grand parent. Do not hesitate. For more of Gordon Morrison's art work visit his site or open any Peterson's North American Field Guide to xxx (birds, flowers, trees, most if not all). He illustrates all of these in painstaking accurate detail. A true Naturalist in every sense. Buy all 5 of his authored childrens books, before they are out of print!!
February 5, 2014
A child crouches beside a meadow brook, and a drop of water collects and falls from the child's fingertip to continue on its journey. Where does that journey begin? High in the sky, rain clouds are parting. Water trickles and flows down the mountain, collecting in an upland bog, seeping through a beaver's dam, rushing over rocks, passing many plants and animals along its winding way;each dependent on water and the different environments it shapes to live. \
Author and illustrator Gordon Morrison has captured a single moment in time, revealing the course and influence of water, and inviting readers to pause and consider the world around them in this beautiful and lyrical appreciation of nature and the resource that makes it all possible;a drop of water.
Juv Nonfiction 508 Mor (Picture book format)
Subjects
Hydrologic cycle -- Juvenile literature
Stream ecology -- Juvenile literature
Author and illustrator Gordon Morrison has captured a single moment in time, revealing the course and influence of water, and inviting readers to pause and consider the world around them in this beautiful and lyrical appreciation of nature and the resource that makes it all possible;a drop of water.
Juv Nonfiction 508 Mor (Picture book format)
Subjects
Hydrologic cycle -- Juvenile literature
Stream ecology -- Juvenile literature
November 8, 2012
I think the title of the book is misleading. It is less about water and more about ecology and habitat. It has a lot of detailed information about plants and animals that live around the water. The illustrations are very well done.
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September 2, 2011There is a glossary at the end.
October 13, 2012
This would be a great 4th grade book because it has great details and descriptions about places with water. It specifically talks about where water goes. It is non-fiction.
February 16, 2015
Beautifully illustrated early reader about water cycle and nature. A pleasure to read, look at, and discuss with the kids.
April 21, 2015
Enjoyable eco-nature book. Liked the "zoom out" aspect of the visuals.
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