Audiobook35 minutes
The Rainbabies
Written by Laura Krauss Melmed
Narrated by B.J. Ward
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The moon presents a childless couple with twelve tiny babies, which they care for with tenderness and love. In the end they are rewarded with their hearts desire - a real child to cherish forever.
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Reviews for The Rainbabies
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
6 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a wonderfully portrayed fantasy. The babies in this book being so little and falling from the sky within the rain, make it impossible for the story to ever happen in real life. The characterization in the book of the parent and the babies is extraordinary.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Author Laura Krauss Melmed and illustrator Jim LaMarche join forces in this beautiful original fairy-tale, which follows the trials and tribulations of an elderly couple who longs for a child. When they discover twelve little rainbabies in a moon shower one night, they take in the diminutive orphans, and protect them from every danger, whether from water or fire. They are offered riches for the babies, but they refuse, and their worth as parents is rewarded when Mother Moonshower arrives to claim her children, bringing a human child in exchange...Although I have enjoyed other books by both Melmed and LaMarche, and although I have long been aware of The Rainbabies, which was first published almost thirty years ago, I never happened to pick it up. Thanks are due to my friend Amalie for recommending it to me, and reminding me to get to it! The story itself is engaging, with lots of traditional folk/fairy-tale elements, from the childless couple to the miniature children, and the accompanying artwork is simply gorgeous! LaMarche never fails to please, and his luminous paintings here are particularly lovely. Recommended to fairy-tale lovers, and to anyone who appreciates beautiful picture-books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"The Rainbabies" is a beautiful book with warm illustrations and an even warmer story. The author reveals to the reader the importance of love for people and responsibility over love for riches and comfort when the man and woman choose the rainbabies over a precious moon stone. The author models a pair of capable and caring parents who are able to protect their little children from "fire, water and earth". The illustrations in "The Rainbabies" tell just as much of the story as the written words do.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a good story of an old couple wishing for a child. They were given a gift of a dozen tiny rainbabies. What they thought was a blessing was actually a test given to them by mother moon. It was a test to see what kind of parents these two would actually become. Mother moon also threw at them a few challenges that the old couple dealt with admirably. In the end, mother moon took back her rainbaby and blessed the old couple with a baby daughter.
This book is beautifully illustrated . The print is rather small for a young reader to read on their own but it is a perfect book to be read to the young person and for show and tell. The story itself is also a kind story that shows that not everything is as it seems, but if you keep to your core values, one comes out a winner.