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Rain School Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Rumford, James

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Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with the vibrant colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.

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  • Title Rain School
  • Author Rumford, James
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Date 2010-10-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 647417-6
  • ISBN 9780547243078 / 0547243073
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 11.5 x 0.4 in (22.61 x 29.21 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 510
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress subjects Rain and rainfall, Schools
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009049701
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.

"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks.
"Will they give us a pencil?”
"Will I learn to read?"

But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."

James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with the vibrant colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.

Media reviews

"While serving as a Peace Corps volunteer, Rumford was a teacher in Chad, and the authentic details illuminate the spare text and beautiful artwork. On double-page spreads, the colored-pencil, ink, and pastel images echo the words’ elemental rhythms as they contrast golden-hued portraits of the children happily learning with dark, rain-drenched scenes of the school disappearing. The building eventually vanishes, but "it doesn’t matter. The letters have been learned and taken away by the children."...Without a heavy message, this spare and moving offering will leave kids thinking about the daily lives of other young people around the world."—Booklist, starred review

"The illustrations are dramatic and inviting, with the black linework strong yet casual and nimble in its delineation of the excited kids and their self-built surroundings; more immediately striking is the array of bright colors, in mottled, strongly resisting pigments that sometimes suggest fresco, sometimes crayon, against the richly textured sandy-gold walls of the mud school. The notion that school on the other side of the world is both different and similar will be interesting to schoolgoers and aspirants, and this could elicit discussion about other kinds of ways schools could and do work."—The Bulletin

Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2010, Page 97
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2011, Page 14
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 11/01/2010, Page 0
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2011, Page 44
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2010, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 10/01/2010, Page 93

About the author

Award-winning author and illustrator James Rumford taught school with his wife, Carol, in Chad. One day, in the middle of the rainy season, they came upon the mud ruins of the town's primary school. Many years later, the memory of that school and the desire of Chadians to get an education no matter the obstacles gave birth to Rain School.

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