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Hale, Christy

Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World

32 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | May, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-15244-2 $17.99

(1) K-3 Die-cuts serve useful and playful purpose in this blue- and beige-colored introduction to Earth's various meetings of water and landforms. A boy fishes on a pond while a girl plays ashore; turn the page, and the pond becomes an island where the girl is stranded. The cleverness continues as a bay becomes a cape, a strait an isthmus, etc., with funny little human dramas to encourage close examination.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2018