Lila and the Secret of Rain
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By David Conway, and and, Jude Daly
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15 reviews
This award-winning picture book tells with spare, elegant prose and poignant illustrations how Lila saves her Kenyan village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows.
For months the sun has burned down on Lila’s village. It is too hot to gather firewood, or weed the garden. It is even too hot to milk the cow. Without rain the well will run dry and the crops will fail. Lila is so worried that when her grandfather whispers the secret of rain to her, she sets off to talk to the sky herself.Lila and the Secret of Rain introduces the topics of natural resources and the impact that extreme weather can have on people’s lives in a tender way that children can relate to. With the added magic of folklore, the African setting sparks interest in our world’s diverse cultures.
Your heart will be drawn again and again to follow Lila in her quest to save her village with the secret of rain. A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner TweetReviews
I enjoyed this book. It was like an African fable. The story was about Lila a young girl who climbs a mountain to speak to the sky to try and make it rain. She tells the sky a sad story and the sky starts to cry rain. I recommend this book to other children.
It is very adventurous
Okay. Quite short
It’s a really nice story and I also liked the colours in the pictures. I really like the summer but this book shows that rain is very important to our planet. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in weather stories.
Good book to hightlight other cultures, how important rain is to life and prompts imagination to follow what you believe.
Lila and her brother were my favourite characters. Lila believed she can do anything.
So amazing
I recommend it to 50% of people here
I really liked it .
I loved it because she told the rain the sadest things she could rememberand it rained
I love it so much
I don’t like this book because it scares me of global warming
I liked it because she helped people by making it rain.
It was a sad story because they didn't have much food. It is a fiction story. It was good in a way too because the rain came and saved them.
a very good read
It s a beautiful story.
