A Drop Of Water

A Drop Of Water
by Walter Wick

A Drop Of Water
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Author: Walter Wick
Illustrator: Walter Wick
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN: 0590221973
Number of pages: 40
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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Book Review: Science is Beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R10PZD4EDPGZ5F This is a perfect book to awaken and nurture an appreciation of the natural world and science in young readers. The photography is brilliant, the writing is clear, and the experiments are fun.

Summary of A Drop Of Water

Filled with stop-action and close-up photography, an early scientific book features such images as a single snowflake and a falling drop of water, accompanied by introductions to such concepts as evaporation and condensation.
The curious, protean nature of water has fascinated people for ages, and Walter Wick--the photographer of Scholastic's highly acclaimed I Spy series--is no exception. Wick is a great admirer and collector of 100-year-old science books where, according to his afterword, "Even the simplest experiments appeared as if improbable or impossible things were happening. Intrigued, I recreated some of the experiments and photographed them with my camera. The results seemed magical, but not because of any photographic trick; it was only the forces of nature at work. It was from these explorations that the idea for this book emerged."

As you're admiring the "crown" created by a water drop splashing into a pool, or how many water droplets can fit on the head of a pin (the smallest droplet on the pin contains more than three trillion water molecules), you'll learn about evaporation, condensation, snowflakes, how clouds form, and more amazing water tricks. Wick's other artfully composed photographs include a "wild wave" caused by a brown egg dropped in a water glass, soap bubbles with a "shimmering liquid skin," a snowflake at 60 times its actual size, and dew on a spider web. Like many old-fashioned science books, A Drop of Water ends with a list of simple experiments may lure the young reader into the world of scientific investigation. Unlike many old science books, this one also stands on its own as a beautiful, notable collection of photographs.

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