Product Description

Rain-day blues

Johnny Lion has everything he needs to play outside in the rain--except rubber boots. So he must stay inside and play indoor games. But indoor games aren't as much fun as splashing in puddles and getting wet. When will Johnny Lion get to go outside?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1266501 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-31
• Released on: 2000-12-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Amazon.com Review
It's a rainy day and Johnny Lion, star of Johnny Lion's Book and Johnny Lion's Bad Day, is stuck inside with no rain boots. What's a bored little cub to do? Johnny builds block towers, knocks them over, paints pictures, paints his tail all red ("Oh, oh, oh! The great big SCAREY THING bit me in the tail.") Johnny's mother is not impressed. "What a mess," she cries. "Johnny Lion, clean up all that awful mess." Then Johnny's father comes home with a new pair of rubber boots for Johnny, and he can finally go outside where his imagination has even freer reign.

For every child who has known the agony of being trapped inside when the whole wet world outside beckons, Edith Thacher Hurd and Clement Hurd have your number. With warm, gentle wit and enchanting illustrations, this well-loved author-illustrator team perfectly captures those rainy day blues. Clement Hurd, whose illustrations for Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon brought children's picture books to stunning new heights, can do more with a palette of yellow, red, and blue than many artists can do with a whole rainbow of colors. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

Review
"Light, amusing, and affectionate, another story about Johnny Lion (a cub who might almost be a small boy)." -- -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

About the Author

Edith Thacher Hurd was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She wrote more than seventy-five children's books, including Starfish, I Dance in My Red Pajamas and the Johnny Lion books, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Clement Hurd.