Explores visual perception and composition of images, examining how images engage emotions and how artwork empowers storytelling. Includes creative exercises.
Sophie's is hurt when the other children laugh at her painting of her favorite tree--but when she explains her painting everybody understands what she was trying to do.
Explores the relationship between the movement of Earth's water and the sun. Shows how the sun's presence or absence can change water's forms--whether liquid or solid or vapor--and move it from sea to sky and back again, ensuring life's continued existence on Earth.
"A stunning, simple book that will educate readers about how fossil fuels are really buried sunlight--energy caught from the sun by plants that were later trapped deep underground for millions of years. Now that this plant matter has been transformed into fuel, humans have been digging it up, changing the fragile dynamic that fulfills the global needs of all living things."-- provided by publisher.
Sophie, not knowing what to do with her anger, goes outside where she runs, cries, and climbs her favorite tree--and then, calmed by the breeze, she is ready to go back home.
