Splish-splash, buckaroos! Stormy weather can't stop best friends Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa from having a good time in these two easy-to-read stories about prancing in the rain and chasing rainbows. With short sentences, simple dialogue, and delightful illustrations by the Caldecott Honor winner Betsy Lewin, this book is perfect for beginning readers, rain or shine!

An unexpected rain shower causes quarreling among the members of a small community

While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.

The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away

As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.

When the rain stops falling and the skies clear up, it's time to put on boots and go outside to play in the puddles

Noodles the dog finds many ways to have fun when rain keeps him indoors all day

Rosie wants her brother Clay to play dress-up, but he is grumpy because it's raining and they can't play ball

Though everyone eagerly awaits the rain, it is slow in coming