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WET

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3 August 2017 WET by Carey Sookocheff, Henry Holt, June 2017, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-62779-775-7

 

“Oh the water

Let it run all over me”

-- Van Morrison, “And It Stoned Me” (1970)

 

“Sometimes it’s fun to get wet, and sometimes it’s not.”

 

Imagine walking around the house, warm and dry, a pair of clean socks on your feet, and accidentally stepping into a little puddle of water that someone left on the floor near the bathtub or the kitchen sink. I can vividly recall from childhood the sensation of stepping on a freezing puddle of melted slush that someone left behind near the front door.

 

Imagine galloping into a warm, gentle sea. It’s the thought that leads to so many people’s dream vacations.

 

There any number of great picture books about the water cycle. But few I know explore the sensation of getting wet. Carey Sookocheff’s WET is a jewel of a picture book about those sensations and the accompanying feelings.

 

“At the pool my feet get wet first.”

 

Who doesn’t know that feeling of walking barefoot on the cold, wet concrete surrounding an indoor pool, shivering, and looking at the water as an ordeal one is about to face?  That’s what I imagine is going through the head of the character who narrates WET, as he walks along that wet concrete at the beginning of the book.

 

If you’ve lived with retrievers or other friendly dogs, as I have, you’ll know the joyful feeling of rolling around on the floor with the two- and four-legged members of your family and getting your face licked. WET appropriately ends with the boy getting good night kisses from the family dog and cat.

 

From beginning to end, WET explores many common experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, involving getting wet. It will get young audiences to recall their own feelings about their experiences of getting wet. It’s easily one of the best “feelings” books for preschoolers that I’ve seen this year.

 

Richie Partington, MLIS

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