Throughout human history, people and cultures around the world have celebrated rain and its life-giving power. All life depends on rain and rain keeps our world green and fresh. Rain Day celebrates all that is wet and beautiful.
Rainfall is the main way water gets to the ground, providing drinking water for animals and plants, replenishing groundwater, and filling our rivers and lakes. When you think about it from this perspective, you understand why rain is critical for our lives and why it should be appreciated and celebrated.
In the library it is very easy to celebrate. I put 'rain' in the title search of the catalogue and we have over 100 books without looking at books about weather, mud, hail, monsoons or any other things related to rain or water. That's enough books for a display! Some of them are beautiful and not borrowed that often.
Of course in Australia, how you feel about rain depends a lot upon where you live as droughts and floods seem to be occurring somewhere constantly.
The books below are some of the books that have 'rain' in their title. Often I put a question with a display to make the children think. It could be simple like 'What do all these books have in common?' or 'How do you feel about rain? Which book on display do you think will match your feelings about rain?'
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