Rainy Day Dream

by Michael Chesworth

In a wordless adventure tale, a young explorer is swept up on an extraordinary quest that takes him from the headwaters of a woodland stream along its course to the ocean. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374361770
• ISBN13: 9780374361778
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

4 ½ * Pictures Speak Louder Than Words

This is, quite literally, a picture book: There is no text. The reader follows the flight of an umbrella-wielding boy swept up by the wind. The pictures show a bird's eye view of the varying landscapes, including a flight over a dam, past a train (with which he almost collides), a waterfall, the docks of what looks like Boston, and his final safe landing back to the park where it all began. Some of the pictures may be a little frightening to sensitive toddlers; on the other hand, they may be reassured by the boy's happy landing. The 30 pages of watercolor pictures are luminously rendered, and the adult and young child can talk have a dialogue about "what happens next?" or "where is he now?" This is a nice opportunity for toddlers (and pre-toddlers) to add their own words to a beautifully illustrated story.