Rainy Day Magic

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Rainy Day Magic

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Governor General's Award for Illustration

Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Illustrator's Award

It's a rainy day, boring as can be, until Victor and Joey decide to make their own fun. Soon chairs turn into castles, bumblebees turn into tigers, and whales and starfish frolic in a watery kingdom.

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ISBN-13:	9780773673663
Publisher:	Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
Publication date:	02/01/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Marie-Louise Gay is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

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"Rainy Day Magic is a delight, a journey through the magical world of a child's daydreams. . . The drawings are wonderful. Fresh, vivid colour. Lovely renderings of a jungle, an undersea world, an enormously beautiful blue whale, an appealing pink sea horse ("winning at sea-solitaire") and a mauve starfish wearing sunglasses relaxing in a deck chair amid sea life of yellows and greens. This enchanting story can be enjoyed by very young children and older ones too. As an adult, I was immediately taken by the charm, wit, rhyming verse, and colour in the story."
— CM Magazine
"Although this book may be enjoyed anytime on its own merits, it could provide some much needed inspiration on a rainy day."
— Publishers Weekly

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On a boring, rainy, windy day, two friends are stuck in the house and are beginning to get on Dad's nerves. Then they hide out in the basement and create a fantasy land to take them through the rest of the afternoon. Old chairs, rugs and boxes are transformed into banana trees, tigers and giant snakes. Victor and Joey (a girl) travel from the jungle, where they ride a tiger bareback, to the depths of the sea, where they encounter a seahorse playing solitaire and a friendly whale. Well-orchestrated, energetic drawings keep pace with the overall adventurous mood of the text through careful use of scale and color. The drab contents of a typical basement stand in contrast with the highly colorful imaginary land invented by the children. Camping out in the cellar turns out to be a creative solution to rainy-day doldrums and although this book may be enjoyed anytime on its own merits, it could provide some much needed inspiration on a rainy day. Ages 3-7. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

K-Gr 3-- Told in verse, this story begins with Joey visiting her friend Victor on wet, foggy day. As requested by Victor's father, they attempt to play quietly (``We raced down the hallway/ And round past the door,/ Up over the couch and then/--Crash--to the floor.'') Less than successful, they flee to the basement where fantasy takes over. In the dim basement, readers are instantly drawn into an adventure that sends the imaginative duo crawling over a tiger's back, sliding down a ``snake's scaly gown,'' and finally into the dark interior of a whale. In a satisfying ending, Victor's mother calls them for supper in the nick of time. The text captures the inventiveness of children's daydreams and is complemented by vivid, almost surrealistic watercolors that spill over their borders, indicating the chaos that typifies the children's play. Readers will enjoy identifying objects that make multiple appearances (a teacup from a picture hanging in the living room reappears in the jungle, house plants become jungle vegetation, and a toy rabbit floats through the ocean in a life preserver). A bit of magic suitable for all kinds of weather. --Pearl Herscovitch, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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