For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.

Illustrations and simple text explain what rain is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and the importance of clean water.

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

A powerful, shared wish helps Uni the unicorn and the little girl who believes in him to save the land of unicorns from seemingly endless rain.

Undaunted by the rainy weather, three children take their happiness outside and seem to chase the clouds away as they jump, skip, and dance together.

A young girl experiences a rain storm from seeing the storm roll in, to splashing in the puddles, and then finally watching the sun coming back out.

"A thorough explanation of the formation and effects of rain."--

Noodles the dog finds many ways to have fun when rain keeps him indoors all day.

Pip Squeak the mouse is kept awake all night by the drips from his leaky roof.

Molly and Neil 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...