Description A picture book that portrays a rainy day through free-flowing lines and vivid imagination. With its large format and bold pencil strokes, the book vividly captures the many moods and expressions of rain, along with a delightfully childlike imaginative world. The playful ways animals react to the rain are innocent and joyful. This is a rare and refreshing creative picture book that highlights a pure spirit of play. The book stands out for its rhythmic, linear depiction of falling rain, its two-beat structure alternating between a richly toned blue-gray reality and a monotone imaginative realm, and its delightfully unexpected ending. The spare, clean text feels warm and conversational, like a mother and child talking back and forth. It makes a wonderful gift for children stuck indoors during the rainy season. ■ The book delicately captures the varied lines that raindrops and wind draw across the sky, along with their visual rhythm. When you quietly watch the rain fall, the way the raindrops slice through the air feels strangely new each time. Thick raindrops fall straight down with such force they seem ready to dent the earth. When the wind gusts, the rain bends as if about to fly upward, then suddenly slants sharply through the air. As the wind dies down and the rain grows finer, the drops become like thin silver threads connecting sky and earth. Then, with another gust, they scatter into sparkling droplets, only to gather again along the wind and slice through the air once more. In this way, the rain never stays still—it feels alive. From the front cover through the interior pages and endpapers, the varying thickness, density, direction, and flow of the pencil lines bring the many expressions of rain to life. ■ As you become absorbed in the rain and its sound, you may feel a subtle shift—leaving reality behind and drifting into a dreamy, sweet, and entirely new world. This new world, a space of imagination, is transformed into a playground. Structured in a call-and-response, two-beat rhythm, the book invites children into a rich and wonderful imaginative world that unfolds between the repeating rain. It's a picture book that sparks children's imagination and broadens their world—perfect to share with kids feeling restless indoors during the rainy season. ■ What do animals do on a rainy day? What does a cheetah do? A lion? A tyrannosaurus? A butterfly? This childlike curiosity about rain is one of the book's central motifs. Fierce animals like lions, tigers, cheetahs, and tyrannosauruses splash in puddles, tilt their heads back to quench their thirst, and clutch umbrellas tightly so they don't blow away. The animals' quirky and inventive responses to the rain are witty and fun. And then—what happens when lightning strikes? The playful, whimsically innocent idea that follows is delightful. The story's festive, unexpected twist ending—animals joyfully playing above a lightning-lit sky—is thoroughly satisfying. ■ Built around pencil-drawn illustrations, the realistic rainy scenes are rendered in blue tones. Using blue-gray as the base color, subtle shifts in hue and brightness capture the many moods of a rainy day and the passage of time. The imaginative scenes, meanwhile, are drawn mostly in monotone line art, with just a touch of color added here and there for accent. Like a dish that draws out the true flavor of its ingredients by using seasoning sparingly, this picture book uses restraint in color and line to create images that are all the more powerful and vivid—a clean, understated, and captivating work. Author: Lee Hye-ri An illustrator who has worked on many children's books. Her major illustrated works include the picture books Fisty, The Holes in Our Body, Dongdong the Land of Songs, Bobabooba 1 & 2, Jjikoo the Baby Sparrow, and No One Will Know Who I Am. Illustrator: Jung Byung-kyu He studied French literature at Korea University and later studied at the École Estienne in Paris. In 1979, he studied picture book making through the UNESCO editor training program in Tokyo. He has worked in planning, editing, and design at publishers including Minumsa and Hongsungsa. In 1989, he received the 1st Kyobo Book Design Award.