About the Book
Book: The Happy Rainbow
Author: Lillian Jane McAdoo
Illustrator: Caryl McAdoo
Genre: Picture Book – Pre-school to Third grade
Release date: December 8, 2022
A precious promise from God is fading fast when a cloud meanders between the rainbow and the sun, shadowing it. The forest animals must act fast to save the beautiful happy rainbow.
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My Thoughts:
This is a very colorful and cute story about a rainbow that gets to come out after a rainstorm and looks upon the beautiful world that God created. Then, a cloud begins to drift by and much to both of their chagrins, stops as there is no wind. The rainbow's colors are quickly fading, and she wasn't quite ready to be done yet. So, she asks all the animals to pray for the wind to move the cloud. What is going to happen?
Besides the little story of friendship and lessons in praying during the hard times, at the end of the book are interesting questions your child may ask about rainbows. There are also some facts about rainbows, a few I wasn't even aware of. This is a nice book to have for any child's library.
I received a copy of this book from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.
About the Author
Singing and playing with cousins and friends are some of her favorite things to do. She lives with Daddy in Carrollton, Texas—he’s a great DFW Metroplex real estate agent—and her mother at her Nanny and Pops in Argyle. Lillian loves visiting Grami and O’Pa’s home, The Peaceable, out in the country where she plays with all the dogs, rides four-wheelers, and collects the hens’ eggs for her paternal grandmother!
About the Illustrator
More from Caryl
Oh, what a joy family is! I’m so glad the Father thought of the generations! It was my blessing to help my grandsugardoll Lillian Jane McAdoo write her debut story THE HAPPY RAINBOW. I asked her questions and she wrote her story in a purple composition book with a Crayola when she visited The Peaceable this summer. Lillian is six years old!
I asked, “What’s something you love?”
“Rainbows!”
“I love rainbows, too. So how is this rainbow?”
“Happy!” she says.
“All right then! Do you want to call your book THE HAPPY RAINBOW?”
“Yes!”
And so it went. At first, she wanted to be through before it even got to the middle, so I explained every good story had a beginning, a middle, and an end. I told her how everything had a beginning, a middle, and an end—except for God. A day has a beginning, morning, breakfast—a middle, noon, lunchtime—and an end, evening, supper.
A house has a beginning, middle, and end when it is built, lived-in, then is torn down. Trees, animals, fish, bugs, flowers, vegetables . . . everything—except God—so that they were very important! Those beginnings,wrote a blog post middles, and ends! But we could do something else if she needed time to think about her story.
“That’s what authors do,” I told Lillian. “You don’t have to write your whole book in a day.” That made her happy.
We had several discussions while we were away from the actual writing. We researched rainbows on Google and learned so many interesting things about them.
I told her how in my stories, Grami liked to have something bad happen—a crisis—that the main character has to overcome. “Can you think of something that might happen to the rainbow?”
“A cloud.”
“Sure! So, what if a cloud got between the sun and the rainbow? Could it shade the rainbow and make it fade?”
And so it went, the questions based on her answers. And over her visit, the story came out, all handwritten—she asked how to spell many words—in the composition book with her crayon.
She was so proud, but not as proud as Grami was of her! She told me more than once how she was the author and her name went on the cover! 😊 Politely, of course, but she sure had me grinning.
After she left, I started the illustrations, all done on the computer with free images at PicMonkey. I would send each to her and get her approval.
A couple of months back, I had the honor of leading my sugardoll to invite Jesus into her heart. As the story came forth, I’d share ways that her story honored Him.
Like the rainbow didn’t get angry with the cloud, but politely asked it to move, or the sweet little cloud, sad about the dilemma he caused, wanted to oblige the rainbow, but couldn’t without the wind (help)!
How the animals joined together to pray for the rainbow like we can join together and pray for our friends when they are in trouble. Of course, about how the rainbow shows bright and proud again at the end, proclaiming God’s promise to all men!
It thrilled me to be a part of Lillian’s first picture book! The whole process proved a very rewarding experience. Perhaps she’ll keep writing!
Blog Stops
Debbie’s
Dusty Deliberations, March 16
Vicky
Sluiter, March 17
Locks, Hooks
and Books, March 18
Ashley’s
Clean Book Reviews, March 19
Cover
Lover Book Review, March 20
Abba’s
Prayer Warrior Princess, March 21
Library Lady’s
Kid Lit, March 22
Texas Book-aholic,
March 23
Because I
said so — and other adventures in Parenting, March 24
Happily
Managing a Household of Boys, March 25
For Him and My
Family, March 26
Mary Hake,
March 26
Pause for Tales,
March 27
Artistic
Nobody, March 28
Simple Harvest
Reads, March 29
Giveaway
To celebrate their tour, Lillian and Caryl are giving away the prize of a $25 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
https://promosimple.com/ps/24dbd/the-happy-rainbow-celebration-tour-giveaway
The cover is adorable, and it sounds like a heartwarming story.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your thoughts on The Happy Rainbow, this sounds like a wonderful book to read with my young grandchildren and I am looking forward to doing so
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