Del Norte Public Library

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

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.

Henry and Mudge the dog's boring weekend becomes interesting when Mom suggests building a castle in the basement.

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...

Cloudette, the littlest cloud, finds a way to do something big and important as the other clouds do.

Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. As climate change upends rai nfall patterns and unleashes...

The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.

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

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to rain. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

Animals in the wild and on the farm scramble to avoid the rain. Will the kitten make it home before it is soaked?