Singing Down the Rain
by Joy Cowley
Illustrator: Jan Spivey Gilchrist

New York : Harper Collins, 1997.
1v. (unpaged) : col.ill.; 23 x29cm.

There is drought in Brianna's town and people are getting "scritchy with each other" and have lost hope in the future. It seems only a miracle can save them. But the towns folk  don't recognise the miracle when it roars into town in the form of "a small fine woman ... and a smile so big it used most of her face." It is the children who recognise that rain is only a song or two away and they join the mysterious woman in singing down the rain. The exclamation "Sweet wonder" is an apt ending for this story.
A lovely story written with a flavour of the Southern States.
The delightful watercolour paintings, one to each double page are in the muted tawny colours of drought until rain falls and we see soft blues and greens.