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Thunderstorm Dancing
Rhythm, rhyme, and family mayhem!
Perfect for reading aloud, this playful, energetic story will have young children leaping into action.
When a sunny day at the beach turns stormy, a little girl runs for cover. Her daddy and brothers are wild in the wind and lightning, and her poppy is as loud as thunder. They fill the house with stamping and crashing while Granny plays piano to their riotous thunderstorm dancing. . . until the storm passes and they all fall down. Then, in the stillness, the girl is ready to play. What will she be, now that the rain has stopped and there's a glimmer of sunlight?
Perfect for reading aloud, this playful, energetic story will have young children leaping into action.
When a sunny day at the beach turns stormy, a little girl runs for cover. Her daddy and brothers are wild in the wind and lightning, and her poppy is as loud as thunder. They fill the house with stamping and crashing while Granny plays piano to their riotous thunderstorm dancing. . . until the storm passes and they all fall down. Then, in the stillness, the girl is ready to play. What will she be, now that the rain has stopped and there's a glimmer of sunlight?
32 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2023
About the author
Judy Watson
30 books19 followersJUDY WATSON is an illustrator and artist working with a combination of digital and traditional methods to make art that explores colour, light and our connection with nature. Judy uses print-making techniques, brush, pen and pencil, often improvising with tools and materials to produce images and textures that are then combined in PhotoShop and flooded with colour to suit the mood of each piece.
She has illustrated a number of children’s books, the most recent being When You’re Older by Sofie Laguna, published by Allen and Unwin in March 2022. Other books include Goodnight Mice! by Frances Watts, which won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children’s Fiction in 2012, Thunderstorm Dancing by Katrina Germein, Leonard Doesn’t Dance by Frances Watts which was selected by the International Youth Library for the White Ravens 2020 Catalogue and Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes, shortlisted for the Eve Pownall award for information books in the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year awards.
Judy is married with two teenage children, a three-legged mixed breed dog, several chickens and a changing array of foster cats. She lives and works in Frankston South in a house overlooking the Upper Sweetwater Creek Reserve. The garden and local bushland are filled with birds, frogs, lizards, the occasional snake and a koala. Having grown up a vet’s daughter with a close connection to animals, and having spent all her holidays on a farm, plants and animals have always been important to Judy. She also enjoys making stuff and is besotted with books. You can follow Judy’s blog at https://judywatson.net
She has illustrated a number of children’s books, the most recent being When You’re Older by Sofie Laguna, published by Allen and Unwin in March 2022. Other books include Goodnight Mice! by Frances Watts, which won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children’s Fiction in 2012, Thunderstorm Dancing by Katrina Germein, Leonard Doesn’t Dance by Frances Watts which was selected by the International Youth Library for the White Ravens 2020 Catalogue and Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes, shortlisted for the Eve Pownall award for information books in the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year awards.
Judy is married with two teenage children, a three-legged mixed breed dog, several chickens and a changing array of foster cats. She lives and works in Frankston South in a house overlooking the Upper Sweetwater Creek Reserve. The garden and local bushland are filled with birds, frogs, lizards, the occasional snake and a koala. Having grown up a vet’s daughter with a close connection to animals, and having spent all her holidays on a farm, plants and animals have always been important to Judy. She also enjoys making stuff and is besotted with books. You can follow Judy’s blog at https://judywatson.net
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