The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Greenfield, Eloise

Water, Water

21 pp. | HarperFestival | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-694-01247-5 $$9.95

(3) PS Harper Growing Tree series. Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. "Water in my fishbowl, / water on my face, / rainwater falling all over the place." This brief rhyming text introduces many of the ways a toddler encounters water, from rivers and streams to a wading pool to the sink, ending with water in the little boy's own cup. Large, sturdy card pages show an African-American boy and his parents walking in the rain, fishing, and taking a boat trip.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin