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Title: Drip! Drop!: How Water Gets to Your Tap by Barbara Seuling, Nancy Tobin ISBN: 0-8234-1459-0 Publisher: Holiday House Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Offers hands-on activities
Comment: Drip! Drop!: How Water Gets To Your Tap is a wonderfully told and splendidly illustrated non-fiction picturebook clearly explaining to young readers ages 4 to 8. Children learn how the water cycle works, how water gets cleaned up and made safely drinkable from the kitchen and bathroom taps, and even offers hands-on activities that are as fun as they are illustrative of the science involved in providing water in the home. Highly recommended for personal, school and community library collections, Drip! Drop! is a superbly presented, entertaining and informative non-fiction picturebook.

Rating: 1
Summary: Drip! Drop!: How Water Gets to Your Tap
Comment: I reviewed this book for our school library. As a parent I like the colored illustrations, I liked the way the words flowed, the changing fonts, and the experiments at the end. BUT on (approx.) page 6 of text, one small but significant error appeared (especially for us up here in Alaska). The author talks of fresh water and then salt water; mentioning (probably casually) that it can be found in ocean water and it is what makes up glaciers.

Glaciers are fresh water. They are (basically) formed by snow falling and falling and falling (ever hear of salty snow?), never melting, and then compressing and over years forming a river of ice that flows downward as it gets larger.

For those who will never meet a glacier face to face or drink any water with the word "Glacier" in its name, this may not bother you. But for me I kept on wondering if there were other "minor" mistakes (are the pipes really made of that? do you really waste that much water if your faucet drips? etc.) --I found I could just not trust the 'facts' presented in the rest of this book.