Rainstorm, by Barbara Lehman, is also from the 2008 Notable Books for Children List. This is a sweet, wordless picture book about a young boy’s adventures on a rainy day. While kicking his ball alone in his big house, he happened to find a key which he discovered could open a trunk that led down a ladder, through a tunnel, and up a spiral staircase to the top of a lighthouse. There he found other children to play with, and at the end of the day he returned home. But the next morning he set off again to play with his new friends, only to find that they had come to him instead. This would be a great book to use to model story-telling with young children. You could also ask questions to get them to think like the author/illustrator in order to help tell the story themselves. It would also be good to have for young writers to get ideas from, or they could “write” the story.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Rainstorm
Rainstorm, by Barbara Lehman, is also from the 2008 Notable Books for Children List. This is a sweet, wordless picture book about a young boy’s adventures on a rainy day. While kicking his ball alone in his big house, he happened to find a key which he discovered could open a trunk that led down a ladder, through a tunnel, and up a spiral staircase to the top of a lighthouse. There he found other children to play with, and at the end of the day he returned home. But the next morning he set off again to play with his new friends, only to find that they had come to him instead. This would be a great book to use to model story-telling with young children. You could also ask questions to get them to think like the author/illustrator in order to help tell the story themselves. It would also be good to have for young writers to get ideas from, or they could “write” the story.
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