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* The Society of Illustrators Gold Medal 수상도서
* Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Yea


"Out Of The Dust"로 뉴벨리 메달상을 받은 카렌 헤스가 글을 쓰고, "Zen Short"로 Caldecott상을 수상한 저명한 동화책 작가인 존 무스가 그림을 그린 베스트셀러 그림책입니다. 국내에서는 "비야, 내려라!"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 명작 그림책입니다.

찜통 같은 더위에 한 방울도 내리려 하지 않는 비를 너무도 간절히 원하는 소녀.
비가 와야만 엄마의 한숨도 덜고, 마른나무들도 살아나지요.
제일 기다려지는 것은 친구들과 수영복을 입고 놀 수 가 있다는 것.
그렇게 기다리는 비가 내리자 소녀와 친구들은 수영복을 입고 빗속을 뛰어다니고, 엄마들까지 베란다로 뛰어나와서 환호성을 지릅니다...

이 책은 비가 내려 좋아하는 기분을 너무도 잘 표현했으며, 존 무스의 수채화로 그려진 그림은 우리에게 기다리던 비가 내릴 때의 행복감을 함께 느낄 수 있게 해줍니다.






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Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0590331256
ISBN-13: 978-0590331258
책 크기: 26.3 cm x 23.5 cm



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Book Description
"Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising joyous celebration....
Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newbery medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.


Publishers Weekly
"Up and down the block,/ cats pant,/ heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway./ Miz Grace and Miz Vera bend, tending beds of drooping lupines," as a whole neighborhood waits for rain. The narrator, Tessie, is the first one to see the "clouds rolling in,/ gray clouds, bunched and bulging under a purple sky," and she engineers a joyful rain dance with her three friends, Jackie-Joyce, Liz and Rosemary. The long-sought rain "freckles our feet, glazes our toes./ We turn in circles,/ glistening in our rain skin." According to Hesse's bio on the jacket flap, this text contains her initial exploration of motifs used first in her Newbery Medal-winning novel, Out of the Dust. With poetic and immediate language, she again captures the cleansing experience of rainfall after a long dry spell. In an auspicious debut, Muth's illustrations showcase an impressive range of perspectives, from the opening urban skyline to the subtle indication of the oncoming storm in the ruffling of a curtain to the girls' view looking up at their mothers from where they're dancing in the street. His inventive design sense and use of watercolors?smudges of shadow, glistening sidewalks and foggy city-scapes?are remarkable. This is an impressive tribute to those experiences that leave us "purely soothed,/ fresh as dew,/ turning toward the first sweet rays of the sun."


School Library Journal
It's summer in the city and a three-week drought has made the heat nearly unbearable. Skinny little Tessie whispers her prayer, "Come on, rain!" longing for the shower that will break the heat and bring her mother's parched garden back to life. Seeking relief, the girl asks permission to wear her bathing suit, but an "Absolutely not" from Mamma keeps her looking for something to do. Like a blessing, she spies clouds off in the distance. Knowing that her mother will be easier to convince with help from a friend, Tessie runs off to her pal Jackie-Joyce's. "It's going to rain," she whispers. "Put on your suit and come straight over." Tessie returns home to fix her mother a much-needed iced tea, and with the perfect timing of a well-laid plan, Jackie-Joyce arrives along with the rain. As hoped, Mamma changes her mind about the suit and the girls run off to join two friends for a romp in the deliciously refreshing summer rain. To their daughters' delight, all four "...barelegged mammas dance down the steps..." and join in a spontaneous dance of relief and celebration. Muth's deceptively simple, muted watercolors capture the stifling city summer heat as well as a young girl's determination to keep it from ruining all her fun. Hesse's poetically crafted, perceptive text skips delightfully along with its own perfect rhythm. Lyrically written and lovingly illustrated, this is one you'll want to share over and over again.


Kirkus Reviews
Hesse (Just Juice, p. 1600, etc.) hits some high notes in this story of parched summer days in the city. Young Tess watches as her mother tends to her woeful wilting vegetable patch; the heat is enveloping. Tess, from her perch on the fire escape, scans the sky in hopes of deliverance, and sure enough, those are rain clouds she spies. When the clouds break, everyone steps joyfully to the rain dance. Hesse's language is a quiet, elegant surge--`` `Rain's coming, Mamma,' I say. Mamma turns to the window and sniffs. `It's about time,' she murmurs,'' but it can become ornate (``trinkets of silver rain'' and music that ``streaks like night lightning'') and jarring amid the contained beauty of the rest of the writing. Muth contributes fine watercolor atmospherics, in sultry summer scenes where the heat is almost palpable, and raucous wet scenes of jubilant dancers.


Review

Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year
* "This is an impressive tribute to those experiences that leave us 'purely soothed,/ fresh as dew,/ turning toward the first sweet rays of the sun.'" -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Hesse's language is a quiet, elegant surge." -- Kirkus Reviews



From the Inside Flap

"Come on, rain!"
Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising joyous celebration....

Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newbery medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.