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Review Rating: 5 Stars
Walter the Raindrop is a children’s educational picture book written and illustrated by Linda Seebeth. As Walter was falling down toward earth, he didn’t feel like he mattered very much at all. He saw all the brilliantly colored plants and animals on the surface of the planet, and he felt like he was lacking in comparison. Likewise, all the large trees, buildings, and fields made him feel so very small. And while he had been happy and smiling when he first began his trip down to earth, he suddenly felt sad and useless. Then he met another raindrop just like him. She had made this trip so many times before, and she had a totally different view of their purpose than he did.
Linda Seebeth’s Walter the Raindrop introduces children to an insignificant-feeling raindrop and, along the way, shows them how every drop of water counts. While kids are increasingly familiar with the specter of climate change and the need to conserve our precious natural resources, Seebeth’s story traces the trail of a drop of water from its first slide down the leaves of a thirsty plant to where it joins a puddle, a stream and eventually a vast ocean. She also explains how evaporation works in a way that makes it easy for kids to understand. Seebeth also illustrated this book, and her raindrop quickly became real and fun to follow. This is an important book for kids who want to become more aware of their surroundings, and it might make suffering through a rainy day seem more worthwhile after all. Best yet, kids learn about how our planet and our water work so well as a team. Walter the Raindrop is most highly recommended.
Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite
Review Rating: 5 Stars
Walter the Raindrop by Linda Seebeth is a 30-page-long children’s picture book about a single raindrop who falls to earth for the first time. As he falls, the little raindrop observes the world around him. But in doing so, he begins to compare himself—a single raindrop—with all the wondrous things around him, and of course with unsatisfying results. Fortunately, before too much time passes, another raindrop is able to help change his perspective and show how important he—and water—is to everything around him.
The story touches on a good part of the water cycle, and so it works well in introducing young minds to this concept early. It also emphasizes the importance of water to everyone on earth. The artwork is well done, colorful and detailed enough that it will draw the young reader in time and again. In fact, there are a number of plant and animal species to discover and explore.
My favorite thing about the book is how it teaches us not to compare ourselves with others, a distinctively human trait that makes each of us feel either superior or inferior to others. Each person has gifts, has abilities, has value, and this book warmly supports that very concept. And if a child can learn this concept from an early age, it makes life that much easier to experience! Walter the Raindrop by Linda Seebeth is a clever story that encapsulates the precious resource of water and our need to be ourselves. Highly recommended.
Bruce Arrington for Readers’ Favorite
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5 Stars
In Walter the Raindrop by Linda Seebeth, Walter is a raindrop who falls from a cloud. He observes all the amazing things on Earth, such as trees and flowers and buildings. He sees that each beautiful thing has a purpose, and he starts to feel that he’s not as amazing and beautiful as these things he is fascinated with. He doesn’t feel important. Then, as he is making his journey down from the sky, onto plants, and eventually into bodies of water, he begins to realize how significant he really is. Even though he may feel like just a droplet of water, he soon sees how much of an impact on the world around him that he truly has.
What I absolutely loved about Walter the Raindrop is that it is so relatable, not only for kids but for adults as well. Sometimes we do feel insignificant because we are just one person in comparison to the millions of people all over the world. But when we really look at our lives, we are so important to our families, to our friends, even to the strangers we are kind to every day. Everyone has a purpose in life, and sometimes we don’t realize it. This book puts that into perspective, and I think it is such an important life lesson for anyone to learn. Through beautiful illustrations and an engaging story that children will love, Linda Seebeth shows the importance of water and how something as simple as a water droplet can teach us an essential life lesson we should all embrace.
Cheryl Schopen for Readers’ Favorite
Walter the Raindrop is a children’s educational picture book written and illustrated by Linda Seebeth. As Walter was falling down toward earth, he didn’t feel like he mattered very much at all. He saw all the brilliantly colored plants and animals on the surface of the planet, and he felt like he was lacking in comparison. Likewise, all the large trees, buildings, and fields made him feel so very small. And while he had been happy and smiling when he first began his trip down to earth, he suddenly felt sad and useless. Then he met another raindrop just like him. She had made this trip so many times before, and she had a totally different view of their purpose than he did.
Linda Seebeth’s Walter the Raindrop introduces children to an insignificant-feeling raindrop and, along the way, shows them how every drop of water counts. While kids are increasingly familiar with the specter of climate change and the need to conserve our precious natural resources, Seebeth’s story traces the trail of a drop of water from its first slide down the leaves of a thirsty plant to where it joins a puddle, a stream and eventually a vast ocean. She also explains how evaporation works in a way that makes it easy for kids to understand. Seebeth also illustrated this book, and her raindrop quickly became real and fun to follow. This is an important book for kids who want to become more aware of their surroundings, and it might make suffering through a rainy day seem more worthwhile after all. Best yet, kids learn about how our planet and our water work so well as a team. Walter the Raindrop is most highly recommended.
Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite
Review Rating: 5 Stars
Walter the Raindrop by Linda Seebeth is a 30-page-long children’s picture book about a single raindrop who falls to earth for the first time. As he falls, the little raindrop observes the world around him. But in doing so, he begins to compare himself—a single raindrop—with all the wondrous things around him, and of course with unsatisfying results. Fortunately, before too much time passes, another raindrop is able to help change his perspective and show how important he—and water—is to everything around him.
The story touches on a good part of the water cycle, and so it works well in introducing young minds to this concept early. It also emphasizes the importance of water to everyone on earth. The artwork is well done, colorful and detailed enough that it will draw the young reader in time and again. In fact, there are a number of plant and animal species to discover and explore.
My favorite thing about the book is how it teaches us not to compare ourselves with others, a distinctively human trait that makes each of us feel either superior or inferior to others. Each person has gifts, has abilities, has value, and this book warmly supports that very concept. And if a child can learn this concept from an early age, it makes life that much easier to experience! Walter the Raindrop by Linda Seebeth is a clever story that encapsulates the precious resource of water and our need to be ourselves. Highly recommended.
Bruce Arrington for Readers’ Favorite
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5 Stars
In Walter the Raindrop by Linda Seebeth, Walter is a raindrop who falls from a cloud. He observes all the amazing things on Earth, such as trees and flowers and buildings. He sees that each beautiful thing has a purpose, and he starts to feel that he’s not as amazing and beautiful as these things he is fascinated with. He doesn’t feel important. Then, as he is making his journey down from the sky, onto plants, and eventually into bodies of water, he begins to realize how significant he really is. Even though he may feel like just a droplet of water, he soon sees how much of an impact on the world around him that he truly has.
What I absolutely loved about Walter the Raindrop is that it is so relatable, not only for kids but for adults as well. Sometimes we do feel insignificant because we are just one person in comparison to the millions of people all over the world. But when we really look at our lives, we are so important to our families, to our friends, even to the strangers we are kind to every day. Everyone has a purpose in life, and sometimes we don’t realize it. This book puts that into perspective, and I think it is such an important life lesson for anyone to learn. Through beautiful illustrations and an engaging story that children will love, Linda Seebeth shows the importance of water and how something as simple as a water droplet can teach us an essential life lesson we should all embrace.
Cheryl Schopen for Readers’ Favorite