Water is all around us. It is rain from the sky. It is a puddle on the ground. It is a place to swim. But that’s not all. Water can change. Water can be ice cubes in your drink or steam from your bath.

Emily Neye is a children’s book author and a landscape designer. She studied English at Amherst College and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Emily loves learning about the natural world and sharing her passion with others, through both her writing and her work on urban gardens and parks. Emily lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.