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:''This article is about the first book of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. For other similar uses, see [[Season One (disambiguation)]].''
[[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 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]].

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]]. The series stars [[Zach Tyler Eisen]], [[Mae Whitman]], [[Jack DeSena]], [[Dante Basco]], [[Dee Bradley Baker]], [[Mako Iwamatsu]], and [[Jason Isaacs]] as the main character voices.

== 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 chapters from Book 1: Water.''"

== Episodes ==
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| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 101
| name     = The Boy in the Iceberg
| image    = Aang in the iceberg.png
| airdate  = February 21, 2005
| writer   = [[Michael Dante DiMartino]], [[Bryan Konietzko]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = [[Sokka]] and [[Katara]], two teenage siblings living in the South Pole, discover [[Aang]] and his pet [[flying bison]], [[Appa]], trapped in an iceberg. After Katara frees him, she discovers that he is an [[Airbending|airbender]] and the siblings take him to their home village in the [[Southern Water Tribe]]. Meanwhile, his unfreezing attracts the attention of the Fire Nation's [[Zuko]] intent on capturing him.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 102
| name     = The Avatar Returns
| image    = Avatar Aang waterbends.png
| airdate  = February 21, 2005
| writer   = [[Michael Dante DiMartino]], [[Bryan Konietzko]]<br /> Additional writing: [[Aaron Ehasz]], [[Peter Goldfinger]], [[Josh Stolberg]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = [[Heir to the Fire Lord|Prince]] Zuko attacks the Southern Water Tribe seeking to capture the [[Avatar]], Aang. Katara and Sokka fly in on Appa to save Aang from the Fire Nation. After realizing that he is the long lost Avatar, they agree to accompany him on his travels to master the other elements.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 103
| name     = The Southern Air Temple
| image    = Southern Air Temple outlook.png
| airdate  = February 25, 2005
| writer   = [[Michael Dante DiMartino]]
| director = [[Lauren MacMullan]]
| summary  = While journeying to the North Pole, Aang, Sokka, and Katara explore Aang's former home, the [[Southern Air Temple]]. Aang learns of his people's [[Air Nomad Genocide|genocide]] at the hands of the Fire Nation; his anger triggers his [[Avatar#Avatar State|Avatar State]], which in turn alerts the world that the Avatar has returned. Meanwhile, Zuko and his uncle, Iroh, have their ship repaired at a Fire Nation port commanded by a rival, [[Military ranks in the World of Avatar#Commander|Commander]] [[Zhao]].}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 104
| name     = The Warriors of Kyoshi
| image    = Suki and Sokka train.png
| airdate  = March 4, 2005
| writer   = [[Nick Malis]]
| director = [[Giancarlo Volpe]]
| summary  = As Aang and his friends begin crossing the expansive [[Earth Kingdom]], they are captured by the female warriors of [[Kyoshi Island]]. Sokka is trained by the [[Kyoshi Warriors]] while Aang lets the villagers' reverence go to his head. Zuko finds out that Aang is on Kyoshi Island; he attacks the village and Aang and his friends escape on Appa.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 105
| name     = The King of Omashu
| image    = King Bumi.png
| airdate  = March 18, 2005
| writer   = [[John O'Bryan]]
| director = [[Anthony Lioi]]
| summary  = While in [[Omashu]], Aang and the gang accidentally destroy parts of the city on a joyride on the city's [[Omashu delivery system|mail system]]. The King of Omashu challenges Aang to three tasks that require creative thinking before allowing Aang and his friends to leave the city.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 106
| name     = Imprisoned
| image    = Katara speeches.png
| airdate  = March 25, 2005
| writer   = [[Matthew Hubbard]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = Aang, Katara, and Sokka camp at a small Earth Kingdom town where all the town's [[Earthbending#Notable earthbenders|earthbenders]] are arrested by the Fire Nation. Katara accidentally gets an earthbender, [[Haru]], arrested. In her guilt, she tricks the Fire Nation into arresting her so she can help to free the earthbenders from the inside.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 107
| name     = Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World
| image    = Hei Bai.png
| airdate  = April 8, 2005
| writer   = [[Aaron Ehasz]]
| director = [[Lauren MacMullan]]
| summary  = The gang finds themselves in a small Earth Kingdom village under attack by a [[Spirit World]] monster. Aang attempts to stop the monster from destroying the town and is accidentally transported to and trapped within the Spirit World. Meanwhile, [[Iroh]] gets captured by a group of Earth Kingdom soldiers and Zuko must track him down.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 108
| name     = Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku
| image    = Aang meets Roku.png
| airdate  = April 15, 2005
| writer   = [[Michael Dante DiMartino]]
| director = [[Giancarlo Volpe]]
| summary  = Aang must travel to the [[Crescent Island#Fire Temple|Fire Temple]], while battling Zuko and Zhao, to receive a message from Avatar Roku. He soon finds that even the once loyal sages of the Avatar are against him.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 109
| name     = The Waterbending Scroll
| image    = Waterbending scroll.png
| airdate  = April 29, 2005
| writer   = [[John O'Bryan]]
| director = [[Anthony Lioi]]
| summary  = Katara steals a [[waterbending scroll]] from a band of pirates and begins to teach Aang [[waterbending]] before they reach the North Pole. Zuko and Iroh learn that the pirates were robbed by the Avatar and team up with them in order to capture Aang.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 110
| name     = Jet
| link     = Jet (episode)
| image    = Jet shows his true colors.png
| airdate  = May 6, 2005
| writer   = [[James Eagan]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = Traveling by foot, Team Avatar accidentally stumbles into a Fire Nation camp. The soldiers immediately surround them, though the team is saved by [[Jet]] and his [[Freedom Fighters]] and invited back to their [[treetop hideout]]. There, the team learns about the orphans living in the woods and fighting the Fire Nation soldiers who dare to set foot in the forest.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 111
| name     = The Great Divide
| image    = Gan Jin vs. Zhang.png
| airdate  = May 20, 2005
| writer   = [[John O'Bryan]]
| director = [[Giancarlo Volpe]]
| summary  = While crossing a canyon on foot, Aang has to mediate between two tribes, the [[Zhang]]s, and the [[Gan Jin]]s, who have been feuding for almost one hundred years. After sending Appa to the other side with the sick and elderly, they become trapped in the canyon when their earthbender guide's arms are broken.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 112
| name     = The Storm
| image    = Giant wave.png
| airdate  = June 3, 2005
| writer   = [[Aaron Ehasz]]
| director = [[Lauren MacMullan]]
| summary  = While a storm approaches, Aang tells Katara why he ran away from the air temple one hundred years prior. Meanwhile, on Zuko's ship, Iroh tells the crew the tale of how the prince received his scar and was banished from the Fire Nation.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 113
| name     = The Blue Spirit
| image    = Aang rescued by the Blue Spirit.png
| airdate  = June 17, 2005
| writer   = [[Bryan Konietzko]], [[Michael Dante DiMartino]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = Aang must travel to an [[herbalist]] to retrieve a cure for the ill Sokka and Katara. While returning to his friends, he is attacked and captured by the [[Yuyan Archers]], sent after him by the newly promoted [[Military ranks in the World of Avatar#Admiral|Admiral]] Zhao. A mysterious masked swordsman, the "Blue Spirit", assists Aang in escaping his imprisonment.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 114
| name     = The Fortuneteller
| image    = Aunt Wu reads the clouds.png
| airdate  = September 23, 2005
| writer   = [[John O'Bryan]], [[Aaron Ehasz]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = Katara convinces Sokka and Aang to travel to a village after hearing of a fortuneteller named Aunt [[Wu (fortuneteller)|Wu]] who resides there. Aang and Katara become excited when the fortuneteller predicts their love-lives. Sokka, however, doubts Aunt Wu's predictions and is proven correct when the volcano she predicted would not destroy the town becomes active.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 115
| name     = Bato of the Water Tribe
| image    = Katara, Sokka, and Bato hug.png
| airdate  = October 7, 2005
| writer   = [[Ian Wilcox]]
| director = [[Giancarlo Volpe]]
| summary  = Sokka and Katara meet [[Bato]], a warrior from the Southern Water Tribe, at an [[abbey]]. When Aang overhears that Sokka and Katara are excited over the prospect of reuniting with [[Hakoda|their father]], he hides a map leading to their father's location. Meanwhile, Zuko, using Katara's necklace, hires a bounty hunter named [[June]] to track down Aang.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 116
| name     = The Deserter
| image    = Jeong Jeong meditating.png
| airdate  = October 21, 2005
| writer   = [[Tim Hedrick]]
| director = [[Lauren MacMullan]]
| summary  = After being chased out of a Fire Nation festival, Aang, Sokka, and Katara encounter a group of Fire Nation deserters, led by [[firebending]] master and ex-admiral [[Jeong Jeong]]. After realizing this could be his only chance to learn firebending, Aang – with the help of Avatar Roku's spirit – convinces Jeong Jeong to teach him firebending. Meanwhile, Admiral Zhao continues his chase for the Avatar.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 117
| name     = The Northern Air Temple
| image    = Northern Air Temple.png
| airdate  = November 4, 2005
| writer   = [[Elizabeth Welch Ehasz]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = After hearing tales that people with the ability to fly are inhabiting the [[Northern Air Temple]], Aang and the crew travel there, eager to meet airbenders. However, they instead find a misplaced tribe of Earth Kingdom natives, who, much to Aang's disappointment, have renovated much of the temple.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 118
| name     = The Waterbending Master
| image    = Pakku waterbends.png
| airdate  = November 18, 2005
| writer   = [[Michael Dante DiMartino]]
| director = [[Giancarlo Volpe]]
| summary  = Finally reaching the North Pole, Aang finds a [[Pakku|waterbending master]]. However, the master refuses to teach Katara being that women are forbidden to learn the art. Meanwhile, Sokka spends time with [[Yue]], Princess of the [[Northern Water Tribe]]. Admiral Zhao hires the pirates to assassinate Zuko while he prepares a massive fleet to invade the North Pole.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 119
| name     = The Siege of the North, Part 1
| title-size = 26px
| image    = Black snow clouds.png
| airdate  = December 2, 2005
| writer   = [[John O'Bryan]]
| director = [[Lauren MacMullan]]
| summary  = The Northern Water Tribe braces against the attack by the Fire Nation. Meanwhile, Zuko sneaks into the North Pole to capture the Avatar. Aang, realizing that the Water Tribe cannot defeat Zhao's fleet alone, decides to visit the Spirit World to get help from the [[Tui|Moon]] and [[La|Ocean]] spirits.}}
|-
| {{Episode box
| series   = 1
| number   = 120
| name     = The Siege of the North, Part 2
| title-size = 26px
| image    = Koizilla destroys the Navy.png
| airdate  = December 2, 2005
| writer   = [[Aaron Ehasz]]
| director = [[Dave Filoni]]
| summary  = Sokka, Katara, and Yue follow Zuko to save Aang. In the Spirit World, Aang learns the identities of the Moon and Ocean spirits and that they are in danger. As Aang returns to the real world, he is saved by Katara. Meanwhile, Zhao succeeds in capturing the Moon Spirit, the source of all waterbending. Aang enters the Avatar State to destroy the siege, Zuko defeats Zhao, and Yue gives her life back to the Moon Spirit to save the Water Tribe.}}
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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.

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!class="darkBg1" | '''DVD Volume title'''
!class="darkBg1" | '''Episodes'''
!class="darkBg1" | '''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 (episode)|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]]
| rowspan="2" |All episodes of Book One.
|September 12, 2006
|-
|Avatar The Last Airbender – [[The Complete Book 1 Collection (Collector's Edition)]]
|June 22, 2010
|}

== Cast ==
'''Starring'''
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!Starring
|
* [[Zach Tyler Eisen]]
* [[Mae Whitman]]
* [[Jack DeSena]]
* [[Dante Basco]]
* [[Dee Bradley Baker]]
* [[Mako Iwamatsu|Mako]]
* [[Jason Isaacs]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* This season of the ''Avatar'' series won several awards, including "Best TV series" and "Best Animated Television Series", at the 2005 Pulcinella Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=3902|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071211072751/https://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=3902|title=Cartoons on the Bay Picks Winners|date=May 3, 2005|author=Ryan Ball|publisher=Animation Magazine|accessdate=February 19, 2022|archivedate=December 11, 2007}}</ref>
* A live-action movie of the first book directed by [[M. Night Shyamalan]], titled ''{{Film|The Last Airbender}}'', was released in 2010. However, unlike the series, the movie was not a critical success. Book One was later adapted into the first season of Netflix's live-action adaptation ''{{N|Avatar: The Last Airbender}}'', released on February 22, 2024.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== See also ==
{{Imagelink}}

* [[Avatar Extras (Book One: Water)]]
* [[Book Two: Earth]]
* [[Book Three: Fire]]
* [[List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes|List of ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' episodes]]
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series)]]

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