What Can You Do When it Rains? / Que fait-on quand il pleut ?

A WARM, UPLIFTING AND FAST-PACED EARLY READING BOOK, ILLUSTRATED IN TWO COLORS, FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE WINTER!

 

What do you do when you’re a bird and you missed the Great Migration? When it starts raining and all you can think about is your friends having a party on a golden beach in the south? Sad and all alone, Otto wanders through the city and meets Basil the cat. He promises to take him to the Hot Country in exchange for a large sum of money. Otto would do anything to join his friends, so he falls into the scammer’s trap and gives him his most precious object – his clarinet.
Everything is lost. Unless… a guidebook left for him by a passer-by in a yellow raincoat can make him change his mind. From anonymous invitations to happy coincidences, Otto searches the city for its mysterious owner!

 

"– Birds! he said with a quavering voice. Have you seen the birds this morning?
– They are long gone my friend. And they were in such a hurry that they must already be far by now. They took flight with no fuss, storks were taking the lead and…
Otto was seized by dizziness. None of this could be real. He walked around the place like a sleepwalker and it felt like the buildings were moving in circles around him. He mumbled inconsistent words and was almost stumbling every step he took."