It's Raining, It's Pouring

It's Raining, It's Pouring Andrea Spalding illustrated by Leslie Elizabeth Watts Blue Spruce Award nominee CCBC Our Choice 2002 A playful new take on the old rhyme. It's raining, it's pouring, The Old Man is snoring, He went to bed with a cold in his head, And he didn't get up in the morning. Rain, rain, go away, Little Girl wants to play. Little Girl means what she says and has the resources to get results. Not one to mope away the day watching the rain pour down, Little Girl struggles into her boots, raincoat and fire fighter's helmet, gets out the ladder and heads for the clouds. Old Man is a giant who lives in the clouds and controls the weather. He does, indeed, have "a cold in his head." Worse, he has no loving person to tend to him. Little Girl know just how to set things right. Back at home, with a little help from her mom, she gathers together her very own cure for the common cold. Now all the remains is to get Old Man out of bed and the sun back into the sky. Together, Andrea Spalding's light, rhythmic, matter-of-fact text and Leslie Elizabeth Watts' lushly-detailed illustrations merge the mythic and the everyday. The result is a story that will delight every reader who has ever gazed longingly outside on a rainy day. Andrea Spalding is the author of many popular picturebooks and novels for children, including Orca Young Readers Phoebe and the Gypsy and The Keeper and the Crows. Her other picturebooks, Sarah May and the New Red Dress and Me and Mr. Mah, are both award winners. She has always dreamed on walking on the clouds. In It's Raining, It's Pouring, she found her opportunity. Leslie Elizabeth Watts has illustrated many picturebooks including On the Night of the Comet and You Can't Rush a Cat.Andrea Spalding is the author of 'It's Raining, It's Pouring', published 2001 under ISBN 9781551431864 and ISBN 1551431866.