Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A very young boy in a yellow slicker enjoys playing in the rain. More evocative in its] use of language than many other board books....Mitchell's softly rendered watercolors...bring a loving family into clear focus. - Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Angela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but raised in Windham, Ohio; the only girl in a family of five. She now lives in Northeastern Ohio in a hundred year old house full of plants. When not writing she travels. On one of her trips to the California desert the inspiration for her first novel, Toning the Sweep came about.