Written by Alvin Tresselt; illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
1946 Mulberry Books
The 1947 Caldecott Medal Honor book is a complicated story. While the premise is easy to understand: a tiny raindrop multiplies to become a brook, eventually a lake, and finishing up a sea; the vocabulary is busy and overwhelming (i.e.- pickerel weed). The illustrations of a monotonous tone depicts the storyline, however some images do a decent job of showing how the water takes over whatever it touches. One could view this book as an analogy that as the water grows and becomes more complicated so does the story itself, as it grows in breadth and vocabulary.
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