Instead of recommending books for Kids and YA this month, I’m recommending poems about rain. What could be cozier than snuggling up on a rainy day and reading poems about rain?
Rainstorms can be scary. Heavy rain, strong winds, thunder, and lightning are no fun for little ones who have waited all winter for the coming of spring and the chance to play outside. Being stuck inside can challenge us to be creative, but rain can inspire us.
We selected poems that celebrate rain and its lifegiving properties and poems to remind us of how much fun it is to splash in puddles and feel the rain on our face. Rain affects all our senses. We see it, hear it, feel it, smell it, and we can even taste it.
“Rain” By Shel Silverstein
“Duck Weather” by Shirley Hughes
“Spring Rain” by Marchette Chute
“April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes
“Thunderstorms” by William Henry Davies
“The Water Cycle” by Helen H. Moore
“Weather Together” by Lillian M. Fisher
“The Rain Upon the Corn” by Ed Blair
“Little Raindrops” by Jane Euphemia Saxby
“Rain in Summer” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Rain” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Who Likes the Rain?” by Clara Doty Bates
“Rain Poem” by Elizabeth Coatsworth
“Summer Rain” by Elizabeth Coatsworth
“Rain Music” by Joseph Seamon Cotter
“Rain” by Raymond Garfield Dandridge
“Rain” by Brenda Williams
“Rains” by Oscar Williams
“Rain at Night” by Helen Hoyt
“Make Me Rain” by Nikki Giovanni