Raindrops

by Larry Dane Brimner

Book Overview

All Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like being able to write and speak... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0516212036
• ISBN13: 9780516212036
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 2

Customer Reviews

Big and Bold

Brimner's Raindrops is a gentle, poetic tie-in to primary science units about the water cycle. Big and bold illustrations by David Brooks in soft, pastel colors are dreamy--as if seen through a soft rain. Brimner, who is one of the best loved writers for kindergarten and first grade, has a winner here. Like this one and you'll enjoy some of his other emergent readers--Cowboy Up!, Nana's Hog, Firehouse Sal, How Many Ants?, and the hysterical duo Max and Felix. Kids love them (and so do their teachers).

An Excellent Book

A first-grade team teacher, I find Brimner's emergent reader to be a useful tie-in to our science unit on the water cycle. Although he doesn't clobber readers over the head with scientific facts--it is, after all, fiction--the cycle is there for young readers to discover and enjoy. An excellent choice for anyone wishing to tie scientific fact to the realm of young fiction.