For instance, one raindrop will be moving sideways, while all the others are falling down. The style of the animals change slightly too; from highly abstract bluebirds to more realistic squirrels and raccoons. One image shows faint chalk drawings being washed away on the sidewalk. It is small, interesting details like these that children notice in reading after reading.
Some drawings suggest action through tossed-off raindrops, or rivulets streaming across the page. While others use a clever double-exposure technique to show dogs wriggling off the rainwater.
The song-like poetry wends its way across the page in sinuous rilles in a cheerful typewriter-look font which hearkens back to the adult reader’s own childhood.
“Raindrops” does not meet the standard of perfection of classic writing for small children. Nor does it have that whimsicality of illustration which could really set it apart. But it is a pleasant and sincere book, and will be a favorite rainy day book for the small set.
Raindrops Fall All Around
by Charles Ghigna (Author), Laura Watson (Illustrator)
Picture Window Books $7.99 2015
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