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Split! Splat!
A delightful, rainy day celebration!
I sing a little rain song, a simple song, a plain song, a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song. Drip drop, plip plop, pit pat, split splat! Put down your umbrella! Take off your galoshes! It's time to sing and dance in the rain. When one little girl and her adorable dog venture out on a rainy, spring day, the neighborhood joins her and what results is squishy, sloshy, muddy day fun.
Amy Gibson’s simple, whimsical rhymes and New York Times bestselling illustrator Steve Bjorkman’s bright and sweet illustrations create the perfect celebration of nature and friendship in this springtime, anytime rhyme!
I sing a little rain song, a simple song, a plain song, a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song. Drip drop, plip plop, pit pat, split splat! Put down your umbrella! Take off your galoshes! It's time to sing and dance in the rain. When one little girl and her adorable dog venture out on a rainy, spring day, the neighborhood joins her and what results is squishy, sloshy, muddy day fun.
Amy Gibson’s simple, whimsical rhymes and New York Times bestselling illustrator Steve Bjorkman’s bright and sweet illustrations create the perfect celebration of nature and friendship in this springtime, anytime rhyme!
32 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2012
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About the author
Amy Gibson
18 books61 followersHaving earned her BA in English from Stanford University and MA in Education, Amy put her schooling to excellent use – she became an elementary school teacher. In the classroom, she framed her entire school year as a trip around the world, exploring animals and cultures along the way. She’s passionate about making language and learning irresistible fun.
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March 27, 2017
My 2 year old has this memorized! She loves it so. And it's fun to read aloud!
August 24, 2024
This was lovely and melodic. I really like the pictures. I was looking for weather themed books for a toddler storytime and I think this one will fit the need.
June 22, 2012
The rhyming text of this book follows the simple joy of a young girl as she splashes with her friends in the rain. As they stomp in puddles and sploosh through mud, the girl sings:
“I sing a little rain song,
a simple song
a plain song
a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song.”
The story begins inside the girl’s house as the rain begins to fall, so she puts on her rain gear and heads outside to play. As the story progresses, she flings off her hat, her boots, and her raincoat in favor of experiencing as much of the rain as possible. The girl and her dog finish the book in a bubble bath after making mud pies and having playful mud fights.
The bright pinks, greens, and blues of the watercolor illustrations evoke the freshness and joy of a spring rain and Gibson’s words have a musical quality to them. It would be fun to set the text to a simple tune and to sing it during story time.
Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2...
“I sing a little rain song,
a simple song
a plain song
a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song.”
The story begins inside the girl’s house as the rain begins to fall, so she puts on her rain gear and heads outside to play. As the story progresses, she flings off her hat, her boots, and her raincoat in favor of experiencing as much of the rain as possible. The girl and her dog finish the book in a bubble bath after making mud pies and having playful mud fights.
The bright pinks, greens, and blues of the watercolor illustrations evoke the freshness and joy of a spring rain and Gibson’s words have a musical quality to them. It would be fun to set the text to a simple tune and to sing it during story time.
Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2...
September 9, 2012
This book is a lot of fun. My oldest daughter loved it from the second she saw it and wants it to rain so she can act it out. It is the wonderful playful story of playing in the rain First the sound of rain while inside, then the sound of rain outside, then splashing and playing in the mud, to the sun coming out and a muddy mess in the house. The illustrations are done in a water-color-like style with softer shades but bright colors. The full page illustrations are awesome and the way the words are integrated into the pictures in different ways and with different sizes is also fun. This book became an instant favorite in our home and I am sure it will in yours also.
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Read the review on my blog Book Reviews and More.
October 3, 2015
I love the sounds of the words in this book, and how the author uses them to describe the sound and feel of rain and mud. Use it to talk with parents about phonological awareness, the ability to hear the smaller sounds in words. Pair it with "Move Over Rover" by Karen Beaumont for a wet and rainy preschool storytime. Follow them up with an activity where the children make the sounds of the rainstorm: Rub hands together, snap fingers, clap hands, slap thighs, stomp feet, slap thighs, clap hands,snap fingers, rub hands, and finally hands on lap.
May 30, 2014
Little girl dancing on the rain with rhyming phrases. Its a fun read, good for learning the phonemes. Toddlers and kindergartners will love this.
September 17, 2014
favorite line mucka mucka chucka wucka.
April 16, 2016
I really love the rhyming in this book and the way that it brings the sounds you experience when it's raining into the story. This would be a great last story for a rain-themed storytime.
April 28, 2016
An onomatopoeia weather day. Great fun.
May 5, 2016
Lots of great vocabulary, and the pictures were adorable.
June 14, 2021
The weather COULD NOT have matched Gibson's book better than it did when I interpreted her picture book, "Split! Splat!". And as quickly as the rain hit my own window pane it was replaced with sunshine a blink later.
That is northeast Ohio weather for ya...
Gibson's book was a chance to have fun while interpreting in American Sign Language, but also offered moments where the interpreter must be creative with visualizing the unique sounds of the rainy day fun, as well as how to keep it entertaining without reusing the same classifiers. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the challenge!
Not one to be in my Top Five of Best Picture Books of All Time, but not one to ignore completely, I am sure classrooms and library story times across the globe have enjoyed "splishing and splashing" in their seats while immersed in the story. I'm also sure that wiggling and waggling will continue long after this review has been posted.
That is northeast Ohio weather for ya...
Gibson's book was a chance to have fun while interpreting in American Sign Language, but also offered moments where the interpreter must be creative with visualizing the unique sounds of the rainy day fun, as well as how to keep it entertaining without reusing the same classifiers. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the challenge!
Not one to be in my Top Five of Best Picture Books of All Time, but not one to ignore completely, I am sure classrooms and library story times across the globe have enjoyed "splishing and splashing" in their seats while immersed in the story. I'm also sure that wiggling and waggling will continue long after this review has been posted.
March 27, 2023
If you love rain...
And/or if you like contagious rhyming...
This is a great book to meet.
Amy Gibson wrote the fun words, while Steve Bjorkman has given us contagiously playful illustrations. (My favorite picture shows flying mud, stirred up by a dog and evidently much appreciated by the heroine.)
In short, I find this picture book to be utterly delightful.
And/or if you like contagious rhyming...
This is a great book to meet.
Amy Gibson wrote the fun words, while Steve Bjorkman has given us contagiously playful illustrations. (My favorite picture shows flying mud, stirred up by a dog and evidently much appreciated by the heroine.)
In short, I find this picture book to be utterly delightful.
March 22, 2018
This is okay. I think the kids enjoyed it more when I make crazy sound effects to go along with the book. It makes more sense to tell the story from the pictures than from what the words themselves actually say.
September 30, 2023
Nice rhyme and rhythm, and illustrations that tell a bit of a story. The kids particularly enjoyed the dog and the times when the girl fell in the mud. I used this book in preschool storytime and while I really like it, it didn't keep the kids super interested.
March 11, 2018
Great book for onomatopoeic language! Fun, light-hearted illustrations.
May 3, 2018
A fun book to share on a rainy day - splish, splat, muddy, & puddles.
August 8, 2018
Great book to illustrate rhyme and onomatopoeia.
November 8, 2018
The illustrations are very kid-friendly. I never know quite what to do when the text consists mainly of nonsense words/rhythms. I think I need to be more creative with the movement possibilities...
March 20, 2019
A great story about playing in the rain and the mud. Rhyming storyline with lots of onomatopoeia throughout.
April 5, 2019
This book had a lot of rain and mud sound effects. There wasn't much of a narrative, and not a ton of room for dialogic reading, but it's fun and rhythmic to read.
February 11, 2021
Nonsense words, onomatopoeia
April 15, 2021
Not my favorite read aloud about rain, but the children seemed to enjoy it. This book is mostly sounds. Engaging illustrations saves this one.
May 7, 2021
What a great book
November 28, 2021
I really liked the whimsy of this book. The language was poetic and lovely.
January 23, 2023
Toddler and preschool
June 12, 2023
Fun to read all the sounds, rhythms, and rhymes aloud. And to watch the joy of kids and dogs playing in the rain. The splatters of rain and mud give a little something extra to the illustrations.
May 14, 2018
Gibson captures all of the noises and muddy joy of exploring an afternoon in the rain. From a rain-themed storytime.
March 12, 2017
Subject: Rain and rainfall -- Juvenile fiction.
Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction.
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction
Stories in rhyme
A delightful, rainy day celebration! I sing a little rain song, a simple song, a plain song, a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song. Drip drop, plip plop, pit pat, split splat! Put down your umbrella! Take off your galoshes! It's time to sing and dance in the rain. When one little girl and her adorable dog venture out on a rainy, spring day, the neighborhood joins her and what results is squishy, sloshy, muddy day fun.
Amy Gibson's simple, whimsical rhymes and New York Times bestselling illustrator Steve Bjorkman's bright and sweet illustrations create the perfect celebration of nature and friendship in this springtime, anytime rhyme!
Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction.
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction
Stories in rhyme
A delightful, rainy day celebration! I sing a little rain song, a simple song, a plain song, a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song. Drip drop, plip plop, pit pat, split splat! Put down your umbrella! Take off your galoshes! It's time to sing and dance in the rain. When one little girl and her adorable dog venture out on a rainy, spring day, the neighborhood joins her and what results is squishy, sloshy, muddy day fun.
Amy Gibson's simple, whimsical rhymes and New York Times bestselling illustrator Steve Bjorkman's bright and sweet illustrations create the perfect celebration of nature and friendship in this springtime, anytime rhyme!
May 2, 2012
In rhyming text and with well-chosen words, a young girl revels in the simple pleasures of a spring rain, even singing a song to the rain. Lines such as "a pitter-patter-tip-tap-on-the-windowpane song" (unpaginated) and "tip/ tap,/ pit/ pat,/ pitter patter split splat!" (unpaginated)emulate the sound of rainfall perfectly. Young readers will love the lines and illustrations that highlight the fun of splashing through puddles, getting muddy, and that childhood favorite, making mud pies. WOW! This one really takes me back to my younger days, and it's likely to appeal to young readers too. The only negative point was that some of the lines for the rain song were a bit hard to say aloud.
November 5, 2012
A delightful rainy day read! Like Denise Fleming's books, Amy Gibson's writing is simple, rhyming prose that expresses the experience of a rainy day. It is less of a story per se, and more of a feeling. The use of alliteration combined with sound words make for a fun and entertaining book.
The illustrations are bright, colorful and fun. They are a perfect match for the writing. I hope to find more books illustrated by Steve Bjorkman. His style is simple, yet very engaging.
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The illustrations are bright, colorful and fun. They are a perfect match for the writing. I hope to find more books illustrated by Steve Bjorkman. His style is simple, yet very engaging.
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