Why a Booktrail?
The importance and excitement of the arrival of monsoon during the summer months
Monsoon
What you need to know before your trail
Told from the perspective a young girl, Monsoon describes the anticipation of waiting for a monsoon to arrive near the end of a long dry season in India. I also like Monsoon Afternoon by Kashmira Sheth and Yoshiko Jaeggi which describes a young boy and his grandfather joyfully playing together in the rain.
Travel Guide
India and the Monsoon season
Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land.
Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors, and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.
Rhythmic prose and vivid chalk pastels flood the senses and take the reader on a tour of diverse urban India.
The note at the end of the book explains that monsoons come at different times of the year and in different directions depending on what part of India and Southeast Asia you live in.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Monsoon
Destination: India Author/Guide: Uma Krishnaswami
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