Description
An Italian boy sips from a fountain within the the town square. A hiker takes
a refreshing drink from a mountain stream. Black-robed women in India stride gracefully through a field with brass water jugs balanced on their heads. Whether or not they squeeze it out of a burlap bag, haul it home from a communal tap, or get it out in their kitchen faucet, people everywhere in the world are unified by their common need for water. Barbara Kerley brings home this point simply and eloquently on this beautiful and educational picture book that combines striking National Geographic photographs with a poetic text to turn how people in more than a few cultures use and conserve the world’s most necessary resource.
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