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Helldorfer, M. C.

Silver Rain Brown

32 pp. | Houghton | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-395-73093-7 $$15.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Teresa Flavin. An African-American boy and his pregnant momma who's "grown round as the August moon" try to keep cool in the middle of an impossibly hot, drought-stricken summer. The heat continues to rise, but rain finally falls the evening the baby's born. Mother and son decide to call the baby Silver Rain. Pictures rendered in gouache nicely capture the enervating heat as well as the cooling rain in this warm-hearted family story.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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