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CM . . .
. Volume XXIII Number 28. . . .March 31, 2017
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So begins an international love letter to the importance of water in the lives of children around the world. Via translations from 12 different languages, a child on each page describes how water is life, and a watermark appears on every page in the language of places like Quebec, Brazil, Mauritania and Russia, handily sending readers from one page to the next to learn “water is life” 12 different ways.
Highly Recommended. Jill Griffith is the Youth Services Manager at Red Deer Public Library in Red Deer, AB.
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Because the book is beautifully illustrated in vibrant colours, readers can vividly see how children live around the world. Gérard Frischeteau, a well-known animator, commercial artist and illustrator from Montreal, QC, is billed as a perfectionist, and it shows in the authenticity of the children and their environments on each double-page spread. Indeed, it is the children who catch the reader’s eye as each tells their story. Both the text and the illustrations serve to unify the world in a common theme, something that isn’t often done well in children’s books, but is done in both a matter of fact and sensitive way by Delaunois and Frischeteau.
The final page of Water’s Children teaches the reader the languages and regions covered in the book, and the endpapers are swirling blues, mauves and whites of water, reminding the reader of the beauty, necessity and power of water in our world.