The Day of the Rainbow {Picture Puffin}

Craft, Ruth; Daly, Niki

ISBN 10: 0140509356 / ISBN 13: 9780140509359

Published by Puffin (edition ), 1991

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 0140509356-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Day of the Rainbow {Picture Puffin}
• Publisher: Puffin (edition )
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140509356
• ISBN 13: 9780140509359
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A library book, a gift, and a recipe are lost on a busy street, and the owners find them by following a rainbow that appears after a summer shower

From Publishers Weekly

A girl named Nerinder, a boy named Leroy and a woman, Mrs. Poppodopolous, all lose a precious item in the bustle of city streets on a hot summer day. Then the rain cools down the streets, and a rainbow forms, seeming to light on those three lost objects. When the items are found, order is restored and the city becomes a friendly place. Craft revels in the cacophony of the urban setting, giving her verse a halting beat that is full of stops and starts and surprising leaps. Daly takes the cantankerous text and brings a visible, pressing tension to the pictures in his sweeps of watercolor: the people are grim-faced and the word "Freedom" adorns a man's T-shirt. The atmosphere, in the opening pages, is downright surlythe city is an angry place that indifferently swallows up treasures; but by the story's end, the tangible pot of gold for each character reveals the city's very human face. If outwardly, the book's aims (and title) seem obvious, the core of the piece is a distilled and affecting definition of city dwelling. Ages 3-8.
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