The young boy’s imagination tempered by time and reality. Throughout the house the day zips by, documented by the various styles of clocks hanging on various walls. Both parents are ready to help their son, giving the boy-the reader-a sense of importance and belonging. Young boys of every shade of black and brown can envision themself as this boy, taking off in a spaceship of their own imagination. They simply assume the roles their son gives them, helping him spend the rainy day in a new galaxy.
They don’t make suggestions or critique what he has accomplished.
Breaking a parental stereotype frequently wrongfully assumed, both of the boy’s parents are home, each constructively busy yet willing to stop and help their son’s imaginative play. Written in rhyming verses of four lines each (quatrains), this picture book breaks the main character mold by developing an African-American boy in the lead. My Rainy Day Rocket Ship will entice young boys of all colors. He succeeds with only the items in the house and with a little help from mom and dad (who are happy to facilitate their son’s imagination). Wanting to do something different, even though he knows his toys bring him much joy, he goes for the unknown he goes for something he must create without instructions or a book. My Rainy Day Rocket Ship highlights the imagination of a young boy when allowed to listen to his inner thoughts. Soon, he will safely land on planet “XYZ”. The boy’s newly minted ship zooms into a new galaxy. Dad begins counting down from ten, while “hiding” behind the couch to protect himself from energetic rocket flames kissing the area around him. Everything finally ready, the boy persuades his mother to turn off the lights. Goggles transform into a space helmet and clothing used in odd ways create his spacesuit. His white and brown pug looks on, following his boy as he prepares for take-off. The nameless young boy is home with only his parents, no siblings, or friends to join in his wild imagination. Gathers up useful toys and household items the young boy, transforms them into a rocket ship and all the astronaut equipment he’ll need in space-and to land once his mission is complete. Looking at this system of planets, the young boy decides he wants to venture off to a new galaxy, somewhere in outer space.
A red, white, and blue rocket, trailing multi-colored flames, catches his eye. In the young boy’s room hangs a brightly colored planetary system. Looking at his toys, but deciding he’d played with them enough, the young, nameless child decides he wants something new to build something challenging something in a new location.
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Stuck inside all day, thanks to a long rainy day, a young boy of color must decide how to entertain himself. Dig deeper and see a celebration of a little boy’s imagination and all the ways he uses it to transform the mundane into the extraordinary as he dreams out loud. With rich artwork by award-winning fine artist Charly Palmer, Markette Sheppard weaves a rhythmic read-aloud that celebrates the soaring ingenuity of a child who refuses to let boredom outdo his inventiveness. Rainy days are no match for this little astronaut, who uses everyday household items-and his super imagination-to build the perfect rocket ship for an indoor space adventure to another galaxy, where the ski is his only limit.
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