Get out your umbrellas!
Filled with stunning imagery and description, Monsoon by Uma
Krishnaswami and Jamel Akib depicts a wonderful children's story of
anticipation, seasonal changes, and the beauty of urban India.
Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during
the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street
and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds
to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one
young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors, and the
breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during
the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.
Rhythmic prose and vivid chalk pastels flood the senses and take the
reader on a tour of diverse urban India.