outside, the wind is howling.
it is a monster shrieking to get inside.
outside, the rain is a solid wall of water.
everything is dark.
everything is destroyed.
everything is gone....

Everything except for the desperate courage of those who survive that terrifying night. After hours of cowering in the dark with no lights, no warmth, and the terrible noises of the rain and wind pounding on the walls, Jose walks out his front door and steps into a nightmare.

But his nightmare has only begun as he and the few who are left in his small village start to...

It rains It rains all over town, pattering congenially on windowpanes and rooftops. From indoors, a child watches, listens, and feels a delicious coziness. It rains on the fields, the hills, the ponds. The streams and brooks, the rivers and seas, surge and swell exuberantly. Tomorrow there will be warm mud to play in, and puddles, and in the puddles "pieces of sky." It pours.
This picture book by the winner of the 1969 Caldecott Medal is a lyrical celebration of rain's inspiring effect on Mother Nature--on human nature, too. Its few words and panoramic pictures are buoyant with growth...

Everything was green, everything was peaceful. Plants, animals, and humans roamed freely about the earth.

However, when a dangerous drought begins to dry out planet earth, the clouds above move about to rain as much as they can to keep their world safe. Unfortunately, Nimbly, the smallest of all the clouds, is unable to rain. Frowned upon at his inability to precipitate, he begins to lose hope until Precephanie, a strong-willed nimbus cloud, takes him up as her disciple to become the biggest storm cloud anyone has ever seen.As they both work together to reach their goal, the...

When a twister hits the pond near Farmer Brown's farm, some very odd things happen. The fish and frogs take flight. They land in some unlikely places--like the barn and the pigs' trough--setting off an uproarious chain of events that affects the entire farm. Once the weather subsides and the farmer and his family emerge from the storm cellar, they encounter a whole new world, including some...