We got drenched this morning, so I pulled one of my usual fall storytimes forward to celebrate the sudden thunderstorm.
Tap Tap Boom Boom
Elizabeth Bluemle, illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Urban residents take to the subway underground station to seek shelter from a sudden rainstorm, and find friendship and fun while down there.
Rain
Sam Usher
A boy is DELIGHTED that it's a rainy day, and can't wait for all the rainy-day adventures to begin, but his grandfather persuades him to wait and wait and WAIT for the rain to end before heading outside for the eventual fun. Gets a little surreal at the end, might confuse littler ones as to what's real and what's imaginary.
Like a Hundred Drums
Annette Griessman, illustrated by Julie Monks
A lovely nature-and-farm-animal focused look at an incoming thunderstorm, heavy on the anticipation. The people are almost an afterthought, and it's a surprisingly lyrical and longing take on the subject.
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