Henry Carter Hull

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

Rhyming text and illustrations depict the swell and quieting of a storm.

"A little boy dreams about jumping in puddles and has an adventure in the process"--

As a young girl splashes in the rain, she plays a guessing game with the reader about other living things that enjoy a cloudburst.

On a rainy day, Nicky the rabbit and his brothers and sisters imagine what it would be like to be somewhere where it was not raining.

"Through rhyme and mixed-media collage illustrations, 'rain fish'--the varied, colorful, and unique little collections of materials that float along on streams of rain water during storms--come to life"--

"A fox's journey to take shelter from a rainstorm, told entirely in onomatopoeia"--

When a little girl ventures out into a spring rain with her dog, singing a simple, plain, pitter-patter rain song, her neighbors soon join her for some muddy-day fun.

Wherever Rain Boy goes, rain follows, and when he is invited to Sun Kidd's birthday party the other children complain that his presence is ruining their fun; now Sun Kidd is hiding in her room because she is upset by her friends' behavior, and an apparently an endless storm has descended on the world--until they all discover that something wonderful happens when rain and sun finally get together.

Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...