Splish, Splash, Splosh! - Softcover

Granstrom, Brita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749656867 ISBN 13: 9780749656867

Publisher: Franklin Watts, 2004

Synopsis

Wonderwise is a series of prize-winning non-fiction picture books with lively narrative text. They introduce basic concepts in a lively and unusual way. This title takes readers on an adventure through the water cycle.

About this title

About the Author:

Mick Manning (born in Yorkshire, England, 1959) and Brita Granstrom (born in Eskilstuna, Sweden, 1969) work together as a team sharing the illustration and text. They have been producing award-winning non-fiction picture books for almost twenty years. They show that the best non-fiction for children can be scholarly, albeit with a light touch, and can have some of the imagination-stretching qualities of fiction. They are well known for their exciting performances involving readings and live drawing using overhead camera projection (often involving participation from members of the audience) all mixed with an audio-visual presentation. They appear on a regular basis at major UK book festival venues such as Bath, Cheltenham and Edinburgh International Book Festival. They have appeared at The Royal Society Science Festival and have celebrated The Big Draw at various venues including The Imperial War Museum. They have worked closely to support libraries and schools, performing voluntarily to school classes in the UK and Sweden. Most recently they visited the American Library Association Conference, Texas where they also visited a Hispanic school and libraries in the area. Many of Manning & Granstrom's books are translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, German, Greek, Danish, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish and Slovakian. For the last 12 years Mick & Brita have created, written and illustrated a monthly 5-page gentle pre-school series called 'Max and Kate' for the critically acclaimed US children's magazine Ladybug. http://www.mickandbrita.com Selection of Franklin Watts books: The World Is Full of Babies! (Smarties Silver Award Winner); What's under the Bed? (TES Award Winner); How Did I Begin? (Rhone Poulenc Science prize winner); Wash, Scrub, and Brush (English Association Award KS1 Winner); Stone Age, Bone Age; Dinomania; When the Sun Goes Down; How Should I Behave?; Seaside Scientist; My Body Book; My Uncle's Dunkirk

From School Library Journal:

PreS-Gr 1--There is not enough story to make this picture book fiction, and not enough fact to make it nonfiction, although the CIP places it in 553.7. In an oversimplification of the water cycle, a boy and his dog follow water from ocean to sink to sewer. With the tedious refrain of "Splish, splash, splosh," each page includes a main chunk of text and a watercolor illustration, as well as smaller pictures and diagrams with additional text that adds little and is sometimes just plain wrong. For example, children are told, "Sometimes frogs and small fish can be sucked up into the clouds and fall with the rain somewhere else" and that three types of clouds are "fine day clouds," "thunder clouds," and "grey day clouds." Pass on this one and stick with Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus: At the Waterworks (Scholastic, 1986).

Yapha Nussbaum Mason, Brentwood Lower School, Los Angeles

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About this edition

• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0749656867
• ISBN 13: 9780749656867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32