A simple introduction to the weather that focuses on rain.

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

"Children, animals, and natural life react to a coming rainstorm that will nourish them all"--

A child enjoys a glorious day in the rain, listening to the varied sounds it makes as it comes down.

A brother and sister play indoors and outdoors on a rainy day.

Amy and her mother drive through the rain to pick up Daddy.

As a young girl splashes in the rain, she plays a guessing game with the reader about other living things that enjoy a cloudburst.

"A mother and son use their imagination to have fun on a rainy day"--

Molly and Niel 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...