Theme: Rain

Singing Down the Rain

By Book Importer | Published: February 23, 2012

Step into a town where all the children are friends, but a drought has made the adults so grumpy they can’t stop arguing! Only a miracle can heal this divided town. Folks are so hopeless, they almost don’t recognize that miracle when it appears as a woman who specializes in rainsongs. Yet slowly the townspeople [...]

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Umbrella

By Book Importer | Published: July 6, 2011

Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her third birthday.

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Limpopo Lullaby

By Book Importer | Published: July 5, 2011
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Cat And Mouse In The Rain

By Book Importer | Published: June 27, 2011

Despite the warnings of their sisters and brothers, a little mouse and a little cat enjoy playing in the rain with a frog.

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Yellow Umbrella

By Book Importer | Published: February 17, 2011

A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.

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Monsoon Afternoon

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

It is monsoon season in India. Outside, dark clouds roll in and the rain starts to fall. As animals scatter to find cover, a young boy and his dadaji (grandfather) head out into the rainy weather. The two sail paper boats. They watch the peacocks dance in the rain, just as the colorful birds did [...]

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Polo and the Magician!

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Polo’s life is never boring. In this adventure, a flood carries Polo to a secret island circus where he becomes a world-class tiger-taming magician to the crowd’s delight.

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My Dad’s a Birdman

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In a rainy town in the north of England, there are strange goings-on. Dad is building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Auntie Doreen is getting cross and making dumplings. Contest barker Mr. Poop is parading the streets shouting louder and louder, and even Mr. Mint, the headmaster, is not quite [...]

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Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Little Dog

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Flicka, Ricka, Dicka were three little girls who lived in Sweden. They had blue eyes and yellow curls, and they looked very much alike. One rainy day, the girls found a wet little dog crying on their doorstep. They took him in and washed and fed him and wished out loud that they could keep [...]

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Keeper

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

An enthralling story of a poor and gawky kid who mysteriously becomes the world’s greatest goalkeeper — a seamless blend of magic realism and exhilarating soccer action.”And you found it, this thing you were looking for?”It was darker now, and the city below Faustino’s office was a jazzy dance of neon signs and traffic. The [...]

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