Rain School

It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.

"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil? Will I learn to read?"

But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."

James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with vibrant ink-and-pastel colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.

• | Author: James Rumford
• | Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• | Publication Date: Oct 25, 2010
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780547243078
• | ISBN-10: 0547243073