Song of the River

K-Gr 3–Cam is a young mountain boy who longs to see the sea. One day, he spots a trickle of water running along the snowy forest floor. In a soft voice, it beckons him to follow it to the sea. Cam happily obliges and as the journey continues, the trickle turns into a creek, which runs into a waterfall, which leads to a stream, which flows into a river and leads to the sea. The journey is eye-opening and exciting, full of new people and places. Cam is on the adventure of a lifetime. When he finally returns to his mountain home, he marvels that he never knew that his tiny trickle is actually the beginning of the sea. Well suited for elementary-aged students, this is a beautiful picture book that tells the story of how various bodies of water come together and eventually lead to the ocean. Readers will learn a lot as they observe the way that the landscape changes as the water moves through the mountains to a town, on to a wharf, and then to the sea. The illustrations are rich and exquistely display how fertile the land is becasue of the gift of the water.