Andrea Spalding - It's Raining, It's Pouring

Andrea Spalding

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It's Raining, It's Pouring

By: Andrea Spalding
Illustrated by: Leslie Elizabeth Watts
Type: Picture Book
Published by: Orca Book Publishers 2001
Available in: Hardcover, 32pp
ISBN: 1-55143-186-6
Available in: Softcover, 32pp
ISBN: 1-55143-229-3

Little girl wants to play outside, but it is raining. She climbs a ladder to the sky, finds out that the old man has a cold in his head, and with her mum’s help, provides a cure, and slides back home on a sunbeam.

Chocolate Lily Award nominee (BC)
Blue Spruce Book Award nominee (OLA)
Nominated for Little Sapling Award (River Oaks Library, Ontario )

- With a spunky heroine, a dangerous quest, and a comforting lifeline to home, most children would consider this an ideal fantasy... perfect for performance, as well as great fun to read aloud... Quill & Quire

- Spalding easily merges reality and fantasy in this delightful tale. CM Magazine.

- A charming tale... Just the right length for a bedtime read ... Island Tides

- ... children will come to like this biracial child as a caring independent person firmly in control of her day and her emotional life. Booklist.

- children will be enchanted with this playful story... Little girl is resourceful, determined, and entirely capable of resolving her rainy day problem... This book is a great read for any of us who live in a wet climate... Resource Links.

"It's raining, it's pouring,
The Old Man is snoring
He went to bed with a cold in his head,
And he didn't get up until morning.
Rain, rain, go away,
Little Girl wants to play."

Outside, the rain pours down. Inside, Little Girl knows why: high up in the clouds, the Old Man who takes care of the weather is confined to bed with a cold. Can Little Girl get up into the clouds and help Old Man get out of bed and back to work? She is determined to try!

It's Raining, It's Pouring will appeal to the imaginations of all who have ever longed for a way to stop the rain, as well as to those who glory in a heavy rain shower!

Internet Links :

The Web sites we have listed here will help you to learn more about the people and places in the book.

It's raining, it's pouring - Anther version of this popular nursery rhyme.
Toddlers Today It's Raining, It's Pouring -- That Doesn't Mean It's Boring! - For parents struggling with the adventures of small children in-doors on a rainy day.