When It Rains ... It Rains

by Bill Martin Jr., Emanuele Luzzati (Illustrator)

Lists in verse the most obvious quality of any kind of weather or human "When it's cold, it's cold./ ... When you're old, you're old."

32 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1970

About the author

Bill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) was an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet. His more than 300 books, among them the bestselling classics Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See ; Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear ; Panda Bear Panda Bear What Do You See ; and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom , are a testament to his ability to speak directly to children. Martin held a doctoral degree in early childhood education. Born in Kansas, he worked as an elementary-school principal in Chicago before moving to New York City, where he worked in publishing, developing innovative reading programs for schools. After several years, he devoted himself full-time to writing his children's books. He lived in New York until 1993, when he moved to Texas. He lived in the east Texas woods, near the town of Commerce, until he passed away in 2004.

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Reviews

[Katie Fitzgerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

These little readers by Bill Martin Jr. were so popular in my school library when I was a kid, and most of them I've never seen again as an adult. This one was on Open Library, and though the text is very basic, I loved the pictures. Of the ones we read, my 3-year-old also liked this one the most.