Editorial Review

https://mykidsreadtheworld.wordpress.com/2024/09/15/july-august-2024-new-releases/

It’s been rainy here for the past few days, so when my girls saw A Rainy Dragon Day featuring a rainy day and a dragon they were intrigued.

A Rainy Dragon Day is a sweet story with dreamlike illustrations perfect to curl up with on a rainy day. It’s a book where not much happens, which is exactly what author and artist Julie Völk was going for. In an interview with the publisher she stated she wanted “to create a book with a story in which nothing at all happens. The characters sit somewhere with a good friend and enjoy the day and do nothing together, and it’s still a fun, satisfying day.”

Something does happen though, something my two young girls can’t get enough of. When the narrator’s rainy day reading is interrupted by her friend Fred the dragon, she doesn’t mind. They carry on cozily until Fred has to go to the bathroom. But where do dragons go when they need to relieve themselves? The two friends go on a fantastical adventure to find out.

The tension is built up perfectly by the illustrations, which my 5 year old poured over trying to figure out where the dragon was finally going to go pee.While reading I did have to slow down my page-turning pace. There are few words on each page with the illustrations telling most of the story. This created a cozy bedtime reading experience for us.