Oh, he also gave my anonymous coffee shop the perfect name: The Rain or Shine Cafe. I love Christian’s characters, especially the adorable little boy, his city landscape, and the heart he brings to the story. Besides being a genuine pleasure to work with, Kate signed up the oh-so-talented Christian Robinson to illustrate the book. Kate O’Sullivan at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt acquired the manuscript. And then showing how the two responded to each other when brought face to face. Then it was a matter of coming up with two contrasting people - a young boy and an older man - and showing how differently the two reacted to the weather. I wanted something universal - and visual - that two people might respond to very differently. In this endearing picture book, a rainy-day. In a face to face meeting, I wondered, which force field would dominate, the positive or the negative? And how might one convey the contagious impact of a mood in a picture book?įrom the beginning, I imagined a story told in images rather than words. One rainy day in the city, an eager little boy exclaims, Rain Across town a grumpy man grumbles, Rain. I was thinking about the power of moods one day, and how even an encounter with a stranger can lift your spirits or dampen them. I’m the one most likely to have the black cloud hovering over my head. Luckily for me, Jack and Jackson have mostly sunny dispositions. A rainy-day city comes to life when a boy in his green frog hat splashes in puddles-Hoppy, hoppy, hoppy-while an old man curses the. In a small household like ours - two adults and one teenager - someone’s bad mood can put all three of us in a funk (and send the dogs skulking off, to boot).
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