Home in the Rain is about a little girl and her pregnant mum travelling back home from their grandma’s house in the family car as it is absolutely pouring down with rain.

Grandma lived far away so they had to stop for something to eat on their way home. As they were eating the car windows begin to steam up, the little girl started writing their names on the windows and wanted to know what her little sister would be called but they couldn’t think of a good name.

I would say that this would make a lovely story for someone below the age of six with a little sister because it shows how just a simple car journey home could affect someone forever. I think the illustrations are a big part in painting the picture of this story and that the text is just right, though there are lots of words on each page so the book is best to be read by a grown up to a child unless they can fluently read by themselves.

It is a very sweet book that contains a beautiful, loving story and looks just as good on the inside too. It is a story that will stay with you after you close the final page. It goes to show how the little things in life can mean a lot.

About the Author

Bob Graham is a Kate Greenaway-winning author-illustrator who has written and illustrated many acclaimed children’s picture books including The Poesy Ring, How to Heal a Broken Wing, How the Sun Got to Coco’s House, Max, Jethro Byrde: Fairy Child and April Underhill: Tooth Fairy.

His 2011 title, A Bus Called Heaven, is endorsed by Amnesty International UK and was the winner of the 2012 Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award – a prize Bob has won an unprecedented seven times.

He has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Literary Award in Australia twice, in 2014 for Silver Buttons and in 2017 for Home in the Rain. Bob lives in Melbourne.