The Rain Came Down

Title: The rain came down
Author: David Shannon
Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Copyright: 2000 by David Shannon
Pages: 32 pages
Ages: 4-8
Genre: Picture book

Summary:
On Saturday morning is started to rain, making the chickens squawk. The cat got mad at the chickens and the dog barked at the cat, but the rain wouldn’t stop. A man yelled at his dog which woke up the baby as the mother yelled for him to stop yelling. A policeman heard the noise and checked on them. His car was blocking traffic and a woman in a taxi squirmed. The woman was going to miss her plane so the taxi drivcer honked his horn. The truck driver in front got mad and started honking back. The ice cream man heard the honking so he turned up his music. The beauty parlor owner came out and bumped into the barber and they began to argue. The painter couldn’t paint in the rain, and all three of them argued. The bakers cakes got wet, and the pizza man got hit in the nose so they began to argue. A boy splashed a girl and she started to cry. A grocery man is looking for his tomato truck that is stuck in traffic but bumps into a lady knocking her boxes into his fruit stand. The policeman goes to his car and hears all the noise (all the time it’s raining) and then, the rain stopped and so did the noise. Everyone stops arguing and the policeman declares everything “A OK”. The woman in the taxi got her hair done and the woman at the grocery store climbed in the taxi to go home. The delivery man got where he needed to go and the little boy and girl had ice cream from the ice cream man. The man, his wife, their baby dog, and cat had a picnic in the afternoon.

Recommendations:
I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. It was boring.

Potential problems:
Other than being boring, none.

MY reaction:
Hated it, I was so bored, I couldn’t have cared less about the rain, who argues because it’s raining?