VINTAGE CHILDREN'S BOOK - RAIN RAIN RIVERS - URI SHULEVITZ. WORDS AND PICTURES BY URI SHULEVITZ. COPYRIGHT, 1969. PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY. PRINTED IN THE USA. HARDCOVER. IT RAINS! IT RAINS ALL OVER TOWN, PATTERING CONGENIALLY ON WINDOWPANES AND ROOFTOPS. FROM INDOORS, A CHILD WATCHES, LISTENS, AND FEELS A DELICIOUS COZINESS. IT RAINS ON THE FIELDS, THE HILLS, THE PONDS. THE STREAMS AND BROOKS, THE RIVERS AND SEAS, SURGE AND SWELL EXUBERANTLY. TOMORROW THERE WILL BE WARM MUD TO PLAY IN, AND PUDDLES, AND IN THE PUDDLES "PIECES OF SKY". IT POURS. URI SHULEVITZ, WINNER OF THE 1969 CALDECOTT MEDAL, OFFERS A LYRICAL CELEBRATION OF RAIN'S INSPRITING EFFECT ON MOTHER NATURE - ON HUMAN NATURE TOO. HIS BOOK IS BUOYANT WITH GROWTH AND FRESHNESS. PRE-OWNED. SOLD AS IS.