Books like Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
By Verna Aardema
For the kid who loves chanting along once they've caught the pattern, this is a story built to be joined in on, not just listened to. Rhythmic, dry-heat-to-rainfall, chant-along, rooted in the grasslands of East Africa.
A little witch determined to save her town's Halloween parade from rain uses her magic to change the storm — first to cats and dogs, then hats and clogs, then bats and frogs.
An imaginative boy dreams up the ultimate house, sketching in a racetrack, a flying playroom, and a gigantic slide as his ideas grow wilder with every rhyme.
A little Chinese boy named Fish begs his father to buy him the biggest fish-shaped kite in the shop — then a great wind called Tai Fung sweeps in and changes everything.
A man and his little dog head out early one winter morning to learn how to ski, but a run-in with a curious moose sends them flying through the air and hanging above a snowy abyss.
A rhyming romp through all twelve months, each one celebrated with a bowl of chicken soup with rice — from snowy January to a windy, wild December.
A small girl with big fashion opinions insists on wearing her own wild, colorful outfit — polka dots, stripes, and all — despite everyone in her family telling her to dress differently.
A born builder who once made a tower from diapers and glue faces a teacher who despises architecture — until a class picnic goes wrong and his skills turn out to be exactly what's needed.
A girl who grows up watching fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains notices they blink in perfect unison — and sets out to convince skeptical scientists that the dazzling synchronized show is real.
A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.
A clever spider man sets out to buy all the world's stories from the Sky God, who demands an impossible price: a fierce leopard, a fire-stinging hornet, and a fairy no one can see.
A concept book traces everyday transformations — seed to flower, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly — using die-cut pages that let one shape magically become the next.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
