A Rainy Dragon Day
What’s more perfect than a day on the sofa while the rain patters on the windows?
I’m just settling down with books, cocoa, and my long-haired dachshund, when the doorbell rings. It’s Fred the dragon, hoping to use the bathroom. There’s nowhere suitable for a fastidious dragon. After rejecting all the usual places, Fred sweeps us off through the storm to a magical world of floating pagoda bathrooms.
Every beguiling detail in these illustrations evokes the snuggle of a cozy, rainy day in a funny story that addresses the very necessary question of where dragons go when they need to go.
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Author, Illustrator: Julie Völk
Julie Völk is a celebrated illustrator from Vienna, Austria, who studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and has illustrated many award-winning picture books. In 2018, she was named an IBBY Honored Illustrator.
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A Rainy Dragon Day
What’s more perfect than a day on the sofa while the rain patters on the windows? I’m just settling down with books, cocoa, and my long-haired dachshund, when the doorbell rings. It’s Fred the dragon, hoping to use the bathroom. There’s… View available downloads →
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Awards
- New Zealand Listener's Top 50 Kids Books
Reviews
Kids Read the World
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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.
Booklist
“Beautifully illustrated in a way that doesn’t just invoke dreary rainy afternoons, with water stains and colors that blend together at the edges but will also remind readers of a kind of comfortable lethargy that can cover a town or neighborhood on drizzly days.”—Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
“A unique bedtime story—before the nightly bathroom visit.”—Kirkus Reviews