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Rain Romp: Stomping Away a Grouchy Day
by
Jane Kurtz (Goodreads Author),
Dyanna Wolcott
On a gray day the heroine of this book feels every bit as grouchy as the cloudy, rainy, windy sky outside her bedroom window. There is no way that her all-too-cheerful Mom and Dad are going to convince her to get out of bed. Or is there?
How do you transform a stormy mood into a sunny one? This clever story holds the secret: a stomping, romping, wild dance that can make you...more
How do you transform a stormy mood into a sunny one? This clever story holds the secret: a stomping, romping, wild dance that can make you...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 17th 2002
by Greenwillow Books
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This is a story about a little girl that wants to just stay in bed. Instead her parents get her out of bed, by dancing and singing. This girl can't take it and jumps up out of bed, runs down the steps and out into the rain. At first she stomps around, and soon begins to enjoy it. Eventually everyone is outside jumping up and down in the rain, and loving it!
The gray, grouchy bad-weather morning exemplifies this young girl's feeling about starting the day until her "colorful" anger forces her outside and suddenly, her mood is changed much to her parents' amusement.
Mommy says: Finny likes the watercolors.
This book would do well for a story time because of all the action and the way it's written and the bright, insistent use of colors. But I'm not sure which age group. I could see the older group being OK with it, but I'm not sure if they would enjoy it. It is a little cheesy at the end. And, personally, I think it's a little too much rainbow. It could be good for a rain theme, or "transitioning" from the rain theme to the "finding happiness" theme. I'll have to think on it.
I loved this picture book. Written in first person, a girl doesn't want to get out of bed, because it is a yucky, rainy day. But she runs from the house and stomps in the rain. Lots of feelings in this book. For example, "The sky and I are 2 howling, prowling, scowling wolverines." Other words such as scolding, frowning, puzzling, smiling and laughing are used. This book takes the reader on a wonderful dance in the rain.
A little girl gets up in the wrong mood, it is nasty outside and she is feeling the same way. She decides to go outside and that's where it becomes all better. The rhyming is not very obvious.
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Jane Kurtz was born in Portland, Oregon, but when she was two years old, her parents moved to Ethiopia. Jane grew up in Maji, a small town in the southwest corner of the country.
Since there were no televisions, radios, or movies, her memories are of climbing mountains, wading in rivers by the waterfalls, listening to stories, and making up her own stories, which she and her sisters acted out for...more
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Since there were no televisions, radios, or movies, her memories are of climbing mountains, wading in rivers by the waterfalls, listening to stories, and making up her own stories, which she and her sisters acted out for...more
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