Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Enjoyed by readers of age: 6 to 8

Read the most by: boys and girls

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. Verna Aardema has brought the original story closer to the English nursery rhyme by putting in a cumulative refrain and giving the tale the rhythm of “The House That Jack Built.”