Nature Experiments & Activities, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Science & Technology Experiments

I Get Wet

Name: I Get Wet
Author: Vicki Cobb
ISBN: 9780688178383

by Vicki Cobb, Julia Gorton (Illustrator), Julia Gorton

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Overview

Know the fastest way to cool off on a hot summer day?
You get wet!

Know what happens when you stay out in the rain?
You get wet!

But do you know how and why you get wet?
You will!

Renowned science author Vicki Cobb has concocted just the right formula for making scientific principles easy for even the youngest kids to understand. Follow this book with a young child who loves to play, just add water, and — presto! — you have a science discovery that will forever change the way your child looks at the world.

Discover science, and the world will never look the same.

Fun hands-on activities and irresistible illustrations by Julia Gorton make this book a perfect excuse to learn about science...just for the fun of it!

Synopsis

Know the fastest way to cool off on a hot summer day?
You get wet!

Know what happens when you stay out in the rain?
You get wet!

But do you know how and why you get wet?
You will!

Discover science, and the world will never look the same.

Fun hands-on activities and irresistible illustrations by Julia Gorton make this book a perfect excuse to learn about science...just for the fun of it!

Publishers Weekly

Two accessible titles in the Vicki Cobb Science Play series by veteran educator Vicki Cobb, illus. by Julia Gorton, teach science basics. In I Get Wet, hands-on experiments and clear examples help youngsters discover the intricacies of H2O. I See Myself explores what makes mirrors work. (Aug.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

About the Author, Vicki Cobb

Vicki Cobb is a pro at explaining the cohesive and adhesive properties of water. but she can never seem to remember that plants like water too! She finally had to decorate her home with artificial plants to keep from killing the live ones.

Ever since Science Experiments You Can Eat, Vicki Cobb has been delighting children, parents, and teachers with the fun of making science discoveries. Now, with the new Science Play series, she sets her sights on the youngest children. who are natural scientists and are always experimenting. Vicki Cobb and her husband divide their time between their homes in White Plains, New York. and Manchester, Vermont.

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From The Critics

These two entries in the Vicki Cobb Science Play series carry prefatory notes to the adult that could seem off-putting on a first encounter of Vicki Cobb. Read with a mirror, a flashlight and a ball? Have ready a number of containers and a lock of hair. Be near a sink! But, the design of the notes themselves immediately alert the newcomer to the vivacity and frolic that readers first found in Cobb's Science Experiments You Can Eat (HarperCollins, 1994) and have loved about her kind of science ever since. The note in I See Myself uses an uneven, bouncy yellow font that forms a cone of illumination cast from a flashlight. In Julia Gorton's hands, the stylized art articulates the sharp lines, brisk colors, and defined geometry that recall Colorforms, a cultural reference that points assertively to the books' call to the imagination. The bold patterns of the endpapers establish the book's visually "retro" attitude. In turn, that attitude infuses the subject and substance of these lucid, involving books that return to the familiar to imagine it, to discover it anew. Not only do they invite readers "to do the activities, without rushing, as they come up," but also they ground the reader with the recognizable and familiar. Both I See Myself and I Get Wet show a child character interacting with her/his domestic environment. Respectively, the girl observes and manipulates her surroundings as she learns about the reflective properties of light, as does the boy when he learns about the cohesion of water. Just as water magically climbs a strip of paper towel, so do these books perform magic in making awesome science discoverable by the hands and minds of young children. This review was written toaddress I See Myself and I Get Wet. 2002, HarperCollins, Mercier

School Library Journal

PreS-K-Two basic concept books, one about the fluidity of water (Wet), and the other about the reflection of light (See). The initial page in each title is essentially the same, and Cobb suggests that adults should read this "Note to the Reader" in order to use each work to its best advantage. She advises that children listen to the text and stop to perform the simple experiments before reading continues. The equipment needed is readily available, and experiments are simple enough that youngsters can feel proud to have accomplished the tasks by themselves. Colorful illustrations, which appear to be generated by computer, range from visually appealing and clever to just plain boring. The text line can bounce off at an angle as in reflecting light or form the shape of a drop of water. Useful introductions for preschool science.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.