Content

This book is a children’s book with illustrations painted with watercolors. It tells the story of a molecule of water being bored because it is trapped into its crystal structure, wishing that something finally happens. When suddenly its world cracks and everything crumbles, it embarks on a journey where it slides and flies and meets other molecules (experiences phase change). As the story is told from the molecule’s point of view, the science behind the story doesn’t appear at first, letting the reader discover this tiny world without necessarily realizing what it’s really talking about, until the last frames reveal it.

The book also contains two double pages where the science behind the book is explained in more details. We describe what atoms and molecules are and how phase change works. The reader is then invited to re-read the book with this new knowledge and appreciate it with a new eye and new insights, to finally appreciate the whole picture behind the story.

Learning objectives

• The world around us is made of tiny elements (atoms/molecules) that are not directly visible with the naked eye

• Those elements can be moved but do not change

• The state in which those elements are can be changed with temperature

Authors

Story: Marie Le Dantec, Marilena Longobardi
Text + Illustrations + Book Design: Marie Le Dantec