Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Puffin Storytapes)

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Summary: A soothing tale that builds with each verse
Review: The PBS show "Reading Rainbow" featured this book; James Earl Jones read it; I fell in love with it and have been giving it as a gift to friends ever since. The gentle story unfolds line by line, with a tender rhythm that entrances: "These are the cows, all hungry and dry, Who mooed for the rain to fall from the sky..." Ultimately Ki-pat, who's watching his herd, brings rain to Kapiti Plain by launching an arrow into the sky. But the charm is in the telling. My 11-year-old still obliges me and lets me read it to him every once in a while.

Rating:
Summary: A soothing tale that builds with each verse
Review: The PBS show "Reading Rainbow" featured this book; James Earl Jones read it; I fell in love with it and have been giving it as a gift to friends ever since. The gentle story unfolds line by line, with a tender rhythm that entrances: "These are the cows, all hungry and dry, Who mooed for the rain to fall from the sky..." Ultimately Ki-pat, who's watching his herd, brings rain to Kapiti Plain by launching an arrow into the sky. But the charm is in the telling. My 11-year-old still obliges me and lets me read it to him every once in a while.

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Summary: A Rythmic Tale That Captures Childrens Hearts And Minds
Review: This book in flowing poetry describes the cycle of life in an unusual way. It captures the attention of children of all ages and holds it until the very end. People of all ages will learn how the rain keeps the cycles of life gowing and how we depend on it for more than we know. The colorful illistrations depict the story beautifully and in great detail. Extremely reasonably priced for a book of such continued enjoyment

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Summary: Kapiti wasn't a plain in my neck
Review: This book was a nice book and I will like to read it again.
I like that the good writer added alot of detail's and the birad
drop a father on kapiti plane and drought.

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Summary: a beautiful, rhythmic story about the end of a drought
Review: This memorable story has a strong, musical quality that children and adults will enjoy hearing read out loud. The rhymes and rhythm are strong enough that the listener can anticipate the words and be a "reader" simply by listening to the music of this story. It also touches on the relationship between water, plants, animals and humans without being self-conciously scientific. This is a beautiful book that I've read out loud to a classoom of four year olds and a classoom of eight year olds - it engaged them all.

Rating:
Summary: a beautiful, rhythmic story about the end of a drought
Review: This memorable story has a strong, musical quality that children and adults will enjoy hearing read out loud. The rhymes and rhythm are strong enough that the listener can anticipate the words and be a "reader" simply by listening to the music of this story. It also touches on the relationship between water, plants, animals and humans without being self-conciously scientific. This is a beautiful book that I've read out loud to a classoom of four year olds and a classoom of eight year olds - it engaged them all.