TOP TEN Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: a Nandi tale retold by Verna Aardema, pictures by Beatriz Vidal. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1981. ISBN: 9780803708099

  Annotation: A Kenyan folk tale of drought and Ki-Pat bringing the rain with the help of an eagle-feather arrow, retold in cumulative rhyme and beautiful, effective illustrations

  Media: Full colour artwork painted in gouache to achieve a flat effect; then camera-separated and reproduced in four-colour process

  Rating: 5Q/5P

  Curriculum connections: Poetry, Art, Folklore

  Grade level: Upper Elementary

  Literary devices: Rhyme, Rhythm

    These lines demonstrate an effective use of both rhyme and rhythm

    “This is the cloud,

      all heavy with rain,

      that shadowed the ground

      on Kapiti Plain.”   

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