Water is Water

by Miranda Hall
Illustrated by Jason Chin
Lexile:  BR
Genre:  Informational
Award:  2016-17 North Star Picture Book Nominee

Water is Water is a book about the water cycle.  Water is water unless it becomes steam or rain or ice or snow or...  Water takes on so many forms!  See how many you can count when you read this book.


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