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This article is about the first book of Avatar: The Last Airbender. For the first book of The Legend of Korra, see Book One: Air.

The cover art for the The Complete Book 1 Collection features Katara, Aang, Sokka, and Zuko.

Book One: Water (水) is the title of the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The title refers to the Avatar Cycle: water, earth, fire, and air. The story of Aang learning waterbending is primarily focused on during this season, together with Team Avatar's journey to the North Pole.

The season began airing on February 21, 2005, with "The Boy in the Iceberg", and ended at twenty episodes on December 2 of that year, with "The Siege of the North, Part 1" and "The Siege of the North, Part 2" each airing on that date. It was followed by Book Two: Earth.

Official summary

"After a lapse of 100 years, the Avatar-spiritual master of the elements-has returned. And just in the nick of time. The Four Nations (Water, Earth, Fire, and Air) have become unbalanced. The Fire Nation wants to rule the world, and its first conquest will be the Northern Water Tribe. It's up to a 12-year-old Airbender named Aang to find a way to stop it. Join Aang, Katara, Sokka, Momo, and Appa as they head north on the adventure of a lifetime. This deluxe box set includes all 20 action-packed from Book 1: Water."

Episodes

Chapter	Episode	Episode name	Airdate
1	01	"The Boy in the Iceberg"	February 21, 2005
2	02	"The Avatar Returns"	February 21, 2005
3	03	"The Southern Air Temple"	February 25, 2005
4	04	"The Warriors of Kyoshi"	March 4, 2005
5	05	"The King of Omashu"	March 18, 2005
6	06	"Imprisoned"	March 25, 2005
7	07	"Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World"	April 8, 2005
8	08	"Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku"	April 15, 2005
9	09	"The Waterbending Scroll"	April 29, 2005
10	10	"Jet"	May 6, 2005
11	11	"The Great Divide"	May 20, 2005
12	12	"The Storm"	June 3, 2005
13	13	"The Blue Spirit"	June 17, 2005
14	14	"The Fortuneteller"	September 23, 2005
15	15	"Bato of the Water Tribe"	October 7, 2005
16	16	"The Deserter"	October 21, 2005
17	17	"The Northern Air Temple"	November 4, 2005
18	18	"The Waterbending Master"	November 18, 2005
19	19	"The Siege of the North, Part 1"	December 2, 2005
20	20	"The Siege of the North, Part 2"	December 2, 2005

The episodes were first released on five DVDs, with four episodes to a DVD, before a box set containing all twenty episodes of the season was marketed. The DVDs were released throughout 2006, and a collector's edition containing additional bonus features was later released on June 22, 2010.

DVD Volume title	Episodes	Release date
Avatar The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water, Volume 1	"The Boy in the Iceberg", "The Avatar Returns", "The Southern Air Temple", "The Warriors of Kyoshi"	January 31, 2006
Avatar The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water, Volume 2	"The King of Omashu", "Imprisoned", "Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World", "Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku"	March 28, 2006
Avatar The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water, Volume 3	"The Waterbending Scroll", "Jet", "The Great Divide", "The Storm"	May 30, 2006
Avatar The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water, Volume 4	"The Blue Spirit", "The Fortuneteller", "Bato of the Water Tribe", "The Deserter"	July 18, 2006
Avatar The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water, Volume 5	"The Northern Air Temple", "The Waterbending Master", "The Siege of the North, Part 1", "The Siege of the North, Part 2"	September 19, 2006
Avatar The Last Airbender – The Complete Book 1 Collection	All episodes of Book One.	September 12, 2006
Avatar The Last Airbender – The Complete Book 1 Collection (Collector's Edition)	All episodes of Book One.	June 22, 2010

Trivia

This season of the Avatar series won several awards, including "Best TV series" and "Best Animated Television Series", at the 2005 Pulcinella Awards.^[1]
A live-action movie of the first book directed by M. Night Shyamalan, titled The Last Airbender, was released in 2010. Unlike the series, the movie was not a critical success.^[2]
The fifth episode of Book One, "The King of Omashu", was the most-watched episode of the season, reaching 3.54 million viewers in the U.S.^[3]

References

↑ Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 1). Wikipedia. Retrieved on July 21, 2014.
↑ The Last Airbender - Reception. Wikipedia. Retrieved on July 21, 2014.
↑ Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 1) - Episodes. Wikipedia. Retrieved on July 21, 2014.

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+:''This article is about the first book of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. For the first book of ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', see [[Book One: Air]].''
 [[File:Avatar Book 1.png|thumb|right|200px|The cover art for the [[The Complete Book 1 Collection]] features [[Katara]], [[Aang]], [[Sokka]], and [[Zuko]].]]
-'''Book One: Water ({{Chinese|水|shuǐ}})''' is the title of the first season of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', created by [[Michael Dante DiMartino]] and [[Bryan Konietzko]]. The serie is all going about a world where people can controll and bend one of these four elements: [[Water]], [[Earth]], [[Fire]] and [[Air]]. There are also four [[Nations]] devided all over the world: The [[Water Tribes]], the [[Earth Kingdom]], the [[Fire Nation]], and the [[Air Nomads]]. There's also the [[Avatar|Avatar.]] The Avatar can controll all four elements, and also should keep the peace and balance between the four nations. It's also the Avatar's task to keep the peace and balance between the human world and the [[Spirit World]].
+'''Book One: Water ({{Chinese|水|shuǐ}})''' is the title of the first season of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', created by [[Michael Dante DiMartino]] and [[Bryan Konietzko]]. The title refers to the [[Avatar#Avatar Cycle|Avatar Cycle]]: '''water''', earth, fire, and air. The story of [[Aang]] learning [[waterbending]] is primarily focused on during this season, together with [[Team Avatar]]'s journey to the [[North Pole]].
-When the Avatar dies, its Avatar spirit is re-born within another Nation. That's called the [[Avatar cycle]]. A new Avatar can never ever been born inside the same nation its past life was born.
-In the Avatar serie, the Fire Nation does not wish to live with the Avatar as their peace keeper, and fears the birth of a new Avatar. [[Avatar Roku]] died, so the cycle continued, and a new Avatar was born into the nation of the Air Nomads. It was a boy, and his parents named him [[Aang]]. The Fire Nation discovers in the serie that the new Avatar was born as an Air Nomad, and decided to exterminate all Air Nomads. By the time they made this decision, Aang, the new Avatar, is already 15 years old, and training with [[Monk Gyatso]]. Monk Gyatso is Aang's favorite monk, but Aang is still having a hard time with the fact that he's the Avatar.
-Aang discovers that the council of the southern Air Nomads is not happy with Gyatso's way of training with Aang, and they decide to send Aang to another [[Air temple]], to continue his training there, without Gyatso. Aang runs away with his flying bisson [[Appa]] because of this, but in the meantime, all monks around the world are exterminated by the Fire Nation including monk Gyatso. Aang ends up in a storm near the [[Southern Water Tribe]], and almost drowns, but gets into the [[Avatar State]], and creates an ice ball, where he would stay for at least a hundred years.
-During these years, a war began, and the Fire Nation took over the whole world, except the [[Northern Water Tribe]], they were too strong for the Fire Nation. A hundred years had past, with no sign of the Avatar. People lost faith in the Avatar, and thought that he was death, until a young girl and her brother went hunting for their tribe. [[Katara]] and [[Sokka]] are brother and sister. They come from the Southern Water Tribe. All [[Waterbenders]] are exterminated in this tribe by the Fire Nation, excep Katara. She's the only waterbender left in the Southern Water Tribe.
-While they are hunting, Katara and Sokka get in a fight, and eventually end up standing on an ice plate, in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly, an iceberg appears with a boy inside it. The boy has glowing arrow tattoos on his head and hands, and glowing eyes. Katara decides to open the iceberg, and they find Aang and his bisson Appa. Katara and Sokka find out that Aang is the Avatar, and they decide to go on a journey with Aang after they rescued him from [[Zuko]], the banished prince from the Fire Nation. Aang didn't learn all elements, except for his birth element. So they fly to the Northern Water Tribe on Appa to teach Aang the first element, '''water'''.
+The season began airing on February 21, 2005, with "[[The Boy in the Iceberg]]", and ended at twenty episodes on December 2 of that year, with "[[The Siege of the North, Part 1]]" and "[[The Siege of the North, Part 2]]" each airing on that date. It was followed by [[Book Two: Earth]].
-They also visit Aang's birth place, the Southern Air temple, but there are no Monks to be seen. Aang finds out about the extermination of his nation, and finds Gyatso's skeleton with Gyatso's necklace. His anger causes him to get into the Avatar trance, and confirming to all the nations their sacret temples that the Avatar has returned. Katara gets him out of the Avatar trance by confirming that she and Sokka are Aangs family now, and they continue their journey to the Northern Water Tribe.
+== Official summary ==
-The first season has 20 episodes, and the very first episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] is: ''"[[The Boy in the Iceberg]]". The season ends with the episode"[[The Siege of the North, Part 1]]" and "[[The Siege of the North, Part 2]]" The second season of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] is called: [[Book Two: Earth]]. Although this serie of Avatar doesn't seems to be really spiritual, the Avatar serie after Aang's life called [[Avatar: The Legend Of Korra]], is very spiritual. In these series, even more new spiritual stuff is been revealed.
+"''After a lapse of 100 years, the Avatar-spiritual master of the elements-has returned. And just in the nick of time. The Four Nations (Water, Earth, Fire, and Air) have become unbalanced. The Fire Nation wants to rule the world, and its first conquest will be the Northern Water Tribe. It's up to a 12-year-old Airbender named Aang to find a way to stop it. Join Aang, Katara, Sokka, Momo, and Appa as they head north on the adventure of a lifetime. This deluxe box set includes all 20 action-packed from Book 1: Water.''"
+== Episodes ==
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 * This season of the ''Avatar'' series won several awards, including "Best TV series" and "Best Animated Television Series", at the 2005 Pulcinella Awards.<ref name="Wikipedia">{{Cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender_(season_1) |title=''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' (season 1) |accessdate=2014-07-21 |publisher=Wikipedia}}</ref>
 * A live-action movie of the first book directed by [[M. Night Shyamalan]], titled ''{{Film|The Last Airbender}}'', was released in 2010. Unlike the series, the movie was not a critical success.<ref name="Wikipedia2">{{Cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Airbender#Reception |title=''The Last Airbender'' - Reception |accessdate=2014-07-21 |publisher=Wikipedia}}</ref>
-* The fifth episode of Book One, namely "[[The King of Omashu]]", was the most-watched episode of the season, reaching 3.54 million viewers in the U.S.<ref name="Wikipedia3">{{Cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender_(season_1)#Episodes |title=''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' (season 1) - Episodes |accessdate=2014-07-21 |publisher=Wikipedia}}</ref>
+* The fifth episode of Book One, "[[The King of Omashu]]", was the most-watched episode of the season, reaching 3.54 million viewers in the U.S.<ref name="Wikipedia3">{{Cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender_(season_1)#Episodes |title=''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' (season 1) - Episodes |accessdate=2014-07-21 |publisher=Wikipedia}}</ref>
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