Author: Verna Aardema
Genre: Traditional or Folk Literature
This story talks about the Kapiti plain in Africa. The story is about how one time the rains never came and all the big animals migrated away from the plain. This story is about how Ki-pat helped end the terrible drought. Throughout this book each page describes a certain aspect of the plain. For example, the big rain cloud that droops over the plain… and the brown grass that’s dead from no rain. It talked about the different animals that were hungry and dry. It talked about the eagle that flew by and dropped a feather and helped change the weather. The Ki-pat shepherd that watched his cows made an arrow out of the feather and shot it into the rain cloud and out came the rain. Everything was prosperous again and the drought was over.
I would read alound the book. Then I would use this to talk about how rain is so important in the world and I would have the students to research “drought.” The illustration in the book is amazing and will help students understand. This book can be read in conjunction with a science lesson about rain clouds. From this I would have students draw an illustration about how rain is formed in the sky.
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