Rainy days

Deborah Kerbel

Book - 2023

"Rhyming couplets celebrate rainy weather and the activities it makes possible from a preschooler's perspective. Mixed-media collage art shows young children engaging in fun activities, including puddle stomping and search and rescuing worms and snails. A final page includes age-appropriate STEM activities related to rain."--

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Subjects
Genres
Fiction
Juvenile works
Nature fiction
Picture books
Stories in rhyme
Board books
Published
Toronto : Pajama Press 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Deborah Kerbel (author)
Other Authors
Miki Sato, 1987- (illustrator)
Edition
Board book edition
Item Description
Cover title.
On board pages.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
ISBN
9781772782776
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Rain, rain, don't go away! Anyone seeking a refreshing spin on rainy-day books will find it here. This delightful picture book is awash in treats for readers'/listeners' ears and eyes, with bouncy, lively, rhythmic verses that make clever use of assonance and consonance, featuring, as examples of the latter, many apt, satisfying S sounds, so readers/listeners can "hear" soft, shushing sounds of raindrops pattering on various surfaces. The artwork suits the book's message, with pages splashed with lovely, lively, textured illustrations created with paper collage, textiles, and embroidery silk. In addition, this charmer will help develop vocabulary, as rain is described in different ways, e.g., drizzling, freezing, drumming, misty, and sprinkling. The book also points out how rain affects nature--by forming puddles, mud, and streams; arousing snails and worms; watering trees and flowers; and "paint[ing] a work of art" in the sky. Grown-ups sharing this book with children will do well to encourage them to suggest other descriptive terms for rain and the natural changes it can bring about. Rainy days are shown in a variety of settings; characters, all of them children decked out in brightly hued raingear and actively engaging in numerous rainy-day activities (save for the few portrayed indoors), are racially diverse. Endpapers feature assorted vibrantly colored umbrellas. The last page includes several rain- and water-themed experiments and activities. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Rainy days bring all sorts of pleasures; reading this book is just one of them. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.