A child describes all the things there are to do on a rainy day.

This book simply describes what rain is and the cycle that repeatedly brings water to the earth.

Black clouds bring lightning and thunder and finally, rain that falls on everything and everyone. Includes a word list.

Simple text and photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of rain.

"Matilda promises her little sister Clemmie an amazing weekend spent playing outside. But the weather's rainy and Clemmie can't bring her new balloon along. Matilda teaches Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday"--

An unexpected rain shower causes quarreling among the members of a small community.

"What's a witch to do when a rainstorm threatens the Halloween Parade? Make it fun, that's what!"--Back cover

As a thunderstorm sweeps into the city, the people of the neighborhood rush into the subway to wait out the wind and weather.

As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.

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...