Rain Rain Rivers

Rain Rain Rivers / words and pictures by Uri Shulevitz.— [New York] : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, c1969.
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Sunburst edition (paperback)
ISBN: 0374461953

1. Rain and rainfall – Fiction.

813.54

In the comfort of an attic bedroom a girl and her cat contemplate the rain outside the window. The girl watches it rushing down the eaves, gushing out the drainpipes and thinks of the puddles that she can sail her toy boats in tomorrow. She imagines it raining on hills and fields far from her city home and collecting in rills, and brooks and rushing into the sea. “Oceans are swelling, Melting the skies.” She anticipates the joy of playing in the puddles with her friends. “We’ll run barefoot in puddles and stamp in warm mud. I’ll jump over pieces of sky in the gutter.” Her lyrical contemplation is illustrated in a muted palette of blue, yellow, and green over black ink.