When the Rain Comes

Timid, young Malini finds unexpected courage when her Sri Lankan community's rice crop is threatened. A USBBY Outstanding International Book, now in a high-quality paperback format.

About the author

Alma Fullerton was first known for her award-winning free-verse novels for
juvenile and young-adult readers, including the Governor General’s
Award-nominated Libertad. Since then, her picture books
about children around the world have also won national and international
awards, including a White Ravens Choice and a Bank Street Best Book for A
Good Trade, and a USBBY Outstanding International Book for When
the Rain Comes. Most recently, No More Plastic! was
an honor book for the Green Earth Book Award and a finalist for both the OLA
Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award and the SYRCA Shining Willow Award. Alma
lives in Prince Edward Island with her husband and her service dog, Gibson.

Kim La Fave is a multi-award-winning illustrator and
designer in paint, pencils, or digital media. His honors include the Governor
General’s Literary Award for Illustration, the TD Canadian Children’s
Literature Award, the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award, and the Amelia
Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. A graduate of the Alberta College of
Art, Kim also honed his skills in Toronto and New York before returning to
British Columbia where he now lives with his wife and family.

Summary

Timid, young Malini finds unexpected courage when her Sri Lankan community’s rice crop is threatened. A USBBY Outstanding International Book, now in a high-quality paperback format.

Foreword

• 4,000-copy
  print run
• Featured
  at virtual and in-person library conferences with the Publisher Spotlight booth
• Targeted
  marketing to major review centers, influential bloggers, and major library
  system selectors
• Classroom guide for educators available
• Promotion
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• E-newsletter
  promotion

Product details

• Authors: Alma Fullerton
• Assisted by: Kim La Fave (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 05.01.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781772783049
• ISBN: 978-1-77278-304-9
• No. of pages: 32
• Illustrations: Full-color illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Sri Lanka, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, People & places (Children's / Teenage), Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature & animal stories, Interest age: from c 4 years, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Autonomy (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction, Rice -- Planting -- Juvenile Fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Rural & farm life, Sri Lanka -- Juvenile Fiction, Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction, Malini, Rice Planting