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Water Can Be . . . (Can Be . . . Books) by Laura Purdie Salas; illustrations by Violeta Dabija is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Water can be a . . . • Thirst quencher • Kid drencher • Cloud fluffer • Fire snuffer Find out about the many roles water plays in this poetic exploration of water throughout the year. "Salas and Dabija follow 2012's A Leaf Can Be... with an equally contemplative and thought-provoking ode to the forms water takes and the functions it serves, both practical and whimsical. Once again, the author's staccato rhymes leapfrog unexpectedly from one idea to the next, almost like a free-association game: 'Water can be a... Tadpole hatcher/ Picture catcher/ Otter feeder/ Downhill speeder.' Working mostly in a palette of deep, wet greens and blues, Dabija nimbly varies the moods of each scene to match the text, from the glee of two children playing in a sprinkler ('Kid drencher') to the drama of an embattled boat being tossed about by enormous waves ('Ship breaker')." -starred, Publishers Weekly "In a look at the forms, functions and uses of water, Salas and Dabija turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. The simple text and spot-on rhymes belie the sophistication of the

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Author

Laura Purdie Salas; illustrations by Violeta Dabija

Publisher

Lerner Publishing Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781467742719

Category

children's

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Anthropology

Rating

4.33 / 5 (492 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13