![]() Lion, last to receive the news has a truly multi-sensory experience: he smells it he sees it he hears it he feels and … he tastes it. Down comes the first raindrop – splash! And rhino feels it. He then passes the good news on to the zebras – they see it …Īnd transmit the news to the baboons: they hear it and go to tell the rhino. ![]() ![]() Everything was hot and dry.’ Thus begins this scorcher of a book – no actually it begins on the front cover with baboon’s arm waving, Thereafter, Porcupine sniffs the air and smells the coming rain. ![]() I’m delighted to see this in print again: it was (along with Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain) a big favourite with a reception class I was teaching at the time it was first published and became the inspiration for a huge wall display. ![]()
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