Within these poignant pages, we will explore how one sees… a cloud. Do you adult-ly and definitively define a cloud scientifically, as an accumulation of water vapor? Or do you child-ly and simply see a bunny’s cottontail or a dramatic dragon’s spiny sail? And maybe, most importantly, can you see both these things, both at the same time?
YES! YES YOU CAN!
Author Andrew S. Taylor and illustrator James G. Martin delicately depict how we gradually grow up, seeing the world based on our beholder’s eyes. They simply show how one should always sing and dance in all the puddles one can find. And how, with both eyes open, one should always anticipate all the rainbows and sunrays, which will soon break through the clouds, and illuminate your life!
Notes from the author
It was always my intention for this book to be used as the ideal inspiration catalyst for real rainy-day activities. Teachers and schools could use it in a plethora of possible lesson plans. Art classes could do cloud creations. Science classes could do wet weather experiments, learn about the variety of cloud formations, and/or show how rainbows are made with water droplets, a prism, and light. It could also be used when wet weather negates recess and/or truly severe storms are on their way and children need reminders of safe spaces and reassurances of future sunny days. Also, kids who are older, could talk about, and write essays, on the book’s message of how we see today, yesterday, and our future self, as an adult.