title: It Rained on the Desert Today (Reading Rainbow Book)
author: Rising Moon Editors
description: The drama of seasonal change quickens a girl's first-person account of the first summer rain in the Southwestern desert. The narrator's elation at the storm expands in Tracy's satisfying visual studies of the responses of animals, people and sun-scorched landscape. Startling if occasionally forced perspectives evoke the grandeur of the storm and its power to renew life in seemingly barren surroundings. In one charming sequence, toddlers romp in the downpour until "they look like mud babies born from the earth herself." The furious rain dwindles to a rainbow, then cedes to a fiery, quiescent sunset. There is, however, a ragged quality about the book. Small motifs amplifying the narrative and appearing opposite full-page illustrations seem superfluous, and the text sometimes distracts by pulling readers into a perception of rhythm only to push them into prose. Ages 4-up. <BR>Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Table of Contents**
  
   **Title Page**
  
   **Copyright**
  
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  _**Chapter Seven**_  
  
   _ **Chapter Eight**_
  
   _ **Chapter Nine**_
  
   _ **Chapter Ten**_
  
   _ **Chapter Eleven**_
  
   _ **Chapter Twelve**_
  
   _ **Chapter Thirteen**_
  
   _ **Chapter Fourteen**_
  
   _ **Chapter Fifteen**_
  
   _ **Chapter Seventeen**_  
  
   _ **Chapter Eighteen**_
  
   _ **Chapter Nineteen**_
  
   _ **Chapter Twenty**_
  
   _ **Chapter Twenty-One**_
  
   _ **Chapter Twenty-Two**_
  
   _ **Chapter Twenty-Eight**_  
  
   _ **Chapter Twenty-Nine**_
  
   _ **Epilogue**_
  
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  **Other Books**
  
   **Acknowledgements**
  
   **About the Author**
  
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  RAIN FELL FROM the sky in sheets. It’d only been drizzling when I’d boarded my
  private jet not even a half hour earlier. Now, I could barely see the airport
  outside my window.
  
  “No, babe, it’s not a big deal. I just would have liked to see you while I was
  in town. It’s been a while. Th