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Rivers of sunlight how the sun moves water around the earth

"The sun explains its role in the movement of water around the Earth, from the lifting of fresh water from the seas, to the movement of underwater currents that nourish the world's oceans. The sun has a hand in moving rivers of water in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states all around the Earth, ena...

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Main Authors: Bang, Molly (Author, Illustrator), Chisholm, Penny (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Bang, Molly. Sunlight series.
Subjects:
Hydrologic cycle > Juvenile nonfiction.
Sunshine > Juvenile nonfiction.
Sun > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:"The sun explains its role in the movement of water around the Earth, from the lifting of fresh water from the seas, to the movement of underwater currents that nourish the world's oceans. The sun has a hand in moving rivers of water in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states all around the Earth, enabling life to exist on our planet. But human beings are interfering in this natural cycle, unbalancing the amount of fresh water available."--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Audience:Ages 4-8.
K to grade 3.
ISBN:9780545805414
0545805414
Author Notes:Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated.

Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book

Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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