{"id":16620,"date":"2012-03-24T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=16620"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T00:10:05","slug":"lila-and-the-secret-of-rain-by-david-conway-illustrated-by-jude-daly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/lila-and-the-secret-of-rain-by-david-conway-illustrated-by-jude-daly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lila and the Secret of Rain by David Conway, illustrated by Jude Daly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/03\/Lila-and-the-Secret-of-Rain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27455 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/03\/Lila-and-the-Secret-of-Rain.jpg\" alt=\"Lila and the Secret of Rain\" width=\"709\" height=\"604\" \/><\/a>Lila, her family, their animals are all too hot. Their Kenyan village has not had rain for far too long. The well has dried up, and the crops are failing. &#8220;&#8216;Without water there can be no life,'&#8221; Lila overhears her mother&#8217;s worry. Then her grandfather shares his rainy-day secret: &#8220;&#8221;You must climb the highest mountain,'&#8221; a man once told her grandfather when he was a young boy, &#8220;&#8216;and tell the sky the saddest thing you know.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Up she clambers to the highest peak the next morning, to tell the sky about her brother&#8217;s cut leg, her burnt fingers, and all the other &#8220;saddest things she knew.&#8221; But still no rain. Her desperate concern for her family, their animals, the crops, makes her sob: &#8220;&#8216;Without crops there will be no food, without food the people in the village will become sick, and without water there can be no life.'&#8221; As Lila weeps, darkening clouds gather, &#8220;until the sky was ebony with emotion.&#8221; Lightning, thunder &#8230; and by the time she reaches home, &#8220;all the villagers were celebrating the rain with music and dancing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning British children&#8217;s author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidconwaychildrensbooks.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Conway<\/a>&#8216;s unembellished text introduces a serious subject with just enough gravitas for younger readers. But what lingers most are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauracecil.co.uk\/pages\/Clients\/Clients_PictureBooks\/Daly_J\/JDaly_home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jude Daly<\/a>\u2019s illustrations: her elegant, elongated figures populating minimal landscapes create beautiful tableaus on every page, threatened by the golden sun which looms closer and closer into Lila&#8217;s parched world.<\/p>\n<p>Even in DC, we&#8217;ve had such a stretch of unseasonably hot weather (what happened to winter? did we miss spring?), that a rainy weekend just seems out-of-place. <em>Lila<\/em> provides a perfect antidote for kiddie cabin fever &#8230; not to mention a good excuse to crank up the tunes and go dance in the rain!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lila, her family, their animals are all too hot. Their Kenyan village has not had rain for far too long. The well has dried up, and the crops are failing. &#8220;&#8216;Without water there can be no life,&#8217;&#8221; Lila overhears her mother&#8217;s worry. 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