Puddle Jumping to Fun and Connection

An apt choice for a summer read. Muth's watercolors serve as the perfect medium to illustrate the book. Told in free verse readers can identify with Tessie's yearning for the respite of some rain. In spare text, Hesse presents characters using a few, revealing details that flesh them out. When the rain finally comes, readers will feel their joy and yearn to bare their own feet and puddle-jump in the first available rain.