Raindrops Fall All Around

by Charles Ghigna, Laura Watson (Illustrator)

Overview

April showers bring May flowers! Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime rain with this delightful board book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479560301
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Springtime Weather Wonders
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Charles Ghigna (also known as Father Goose) lives in a treehouse in Alabama. He is the author of more than 100 award-winning books for children and adults from Random House, Capstone, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams, Charlesbridge and other publishers. His poems appear in hundreds of magazines from The New Yorker and Harper's to Cricket and Highlights. He is a former poetry editor of the English Journal and nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.

Interviews

Fun rhyming text and colorful illustrations about spring weather; Key weather facts teach kids about the weather topics at hand. Reinforced Library Binding

Editorial Reviews

The humorous and colorful illustrations featuring animals will catch the attention of the youngest readers and non-readers. Each book also includes two pages of additional and more detailed information about the topic, useful for adults who share the story with young readers.

School Library Connection

...teaches toddlers all about what they’re seeing and feeling out there in the post-wintery world. Cheerful rhyming text accompanied by rich illustrations of happy critters enjoying the damp and the dry alike will make this little set an instant family classic...

Urban Family

2015-03-11
Spring rains fall on a variety of happy animals in this rhyming board book. Rhyming text that doesn't mesh with the pictures makes this a disappointing outing. Mostly the rhymes work but sometimes at the expense of scansion: some lines have seven syllables and some have eight, so the rhythm doesn't always flow. The presentation of ideas seems mostly to be made in service of the rhyming couplets rather than meaningful internal relationships. For example, with "A flowing creek fills up with rain / Rain seeps down into the drain," the juxtaposition of a creek and a drain simply does not make sense. More significantly, the rhyming text is mismatched with the greeting-card illustrations. Individually, the illustrations are cute, but there is no continuity. The pictures that work best parallel the text, but when an animal is not specifically named, the choices seem arbitrary if not downright peculiar: the smiling, rain-soaked cats seem especially unlikely. This book and its companion titles (Hail to Spring, Sunshine Brightens Springtime, and A Windy Day in Spring) are certainly cheerful, but they are also forgettable. Skip. (Board book. 2-3)

Kirkus Reviews