Episode 111: Rain Poems to Say to a Child

Update: 2025-02-25

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Even if that child is just yourself.

"Rain" by Robert Lewis Stevenson

"Drippy Weather" by Aileen Fisher

"Spring Rain" by Marchette Chute

I first encountered these in Poems to Read to the Very Young edited by Josette Frank, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin

Bonus: "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes

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Episode 111: Rain Poems to Say to a Child

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Mary Giudice

Episode 111: Rain Poems to Say to a Child