Come On, Rain!

"Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newbery medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.

Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year* "This is an impressive tribute to those experiences that leave us 'purely soothed,/ fresh as dew,/ turning toward the first sweet rays of the sun.'" -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"Hesse's language is a quiet, elegant surge." -- Kirkus Reviews