Central Kansas Library System

Follow a group of children as they enjoy the rain and all the wonderful activities of spring.

A summer thunderstorm is approaching, bringing with it all the rain, thunder, lightening, wonder, and excitement a storm can bring. Lightning's flashing trees are thrashing cymbals clashing big boom bashing! Bright, cheerful watercolors and a bouncing rhythmic poem-text come together to create this energetic child-friendly picture book.

Retells the fable, "The Wind and the Sun," in which Wind, Rain, and Sun attempt to remove the cap of a shepherdess. Collage illustrations include symbols based on seal characters of Chinese pictograms.

Answers questions related to rain such as, what shape are falling raindrops, does every cloud make rain, and where does the rain go?

Describes the changing sounds of the rain, the slow soft sprinkle, the drip-drop tinkle, the sounding pounding roaring rain, and the fresh wet silent after-time of rain.

Brief text and illustrations describe a rainstorm.

Introduces the water cycle, explaining how rain fills lakes and other bodies of water, is warmed and evaporated into the air, and changed by cooler temperatures back into rain or snow.

As a boy sits alone watching spring's first rainfall, he sees that the drops are turning into tiny people, who invite him to join them.

When it begins to rain and storm on the day of her big parade, Jazmin stomps, shouts, and does all she can think of to drive the rain away.