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What’s happened to our water?

Name: What’s happened to our water?
ISBN: 9780948602610

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Sue Adams - Author

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CC BY 4.0

Credits & Licence

Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Sue Adams. Illustrator: Megan Naudé. Designer: SODAAA. Editor: Angela Briggs.

Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.

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A lively animal adventure turns a dirty-water mystery into a story about pollution and repair. The illustrations make the changing river condition visible, while the animals’ reactions give the problem an emotional dimension.

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Book Analysis

At a Glance

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River pollution· AffirmedHuman responsibility· AffirmedRepair· Affirmed

Consider

Violence and harmEmotional intensityViolence

Personalised Fit

Beyond the Cover

river pollutionhuman responsibilityrepair

FictionPicture book

Themes in Context

Pollution and responsibility

The animals find rubbish near where people live; the people apologise and say they will help. Later the pipe is fixed and the litter is gone.

How the book presents it: The story presents pollution as harmful and depicts people accepting responsibility and helping to put things right.

Talk about: What further steps, if any, might help keep the river clean?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

It can open a concrete conversation about how rubbish and a leaking pipe affect a river, and how people’s actions can help address pollution.

What Deserves Attention

The animals are visibly upset; one says the fish are dying, and another cannot drink the water. These moments may prompt questions about animal harm and dirty water.

A Conversation Worth Having

What clues help the animals work out what is making the river dirty, and what would you want to know about how the pipe came to be fixed?

Reading Approach

Pause at the river scenes and invite the reader to notice what changes in the water and how each animal responds. Then compare those details with the final cleaner-water scenes.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. The complete text and illustrations were available for this guide.

What remains unconfirmed

Pollution and responsibility: The story does not show who fixes the pipe or explain how the river’s improvement is achieved.

Book Dash — What’s happened to our water?

Complete story and illustrations · ISBN 9780948602610

Checked: 8 October 2026.

Relevant to: Pollution and responsibility

Benefits, discussion questions and reading approaches are suggestions. Your knowledge of your child remains part of the decision.

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