I really enjoyed reading this book because I found a lot of personal connections. This story follows a family during a flood as they move through their community offering to help their friends and neighbors. The strong theme of family and community in this story are admirable, and allow the readers to make connections to their own lives. The kind nature of the family in the story reminded me of my own. I remember my neighbors coming together during many natural disasters: Hurricane Sandy, the blizzard of 2007, and many more. Along with the personal connections made, I enjoyed this book for the illustrations as well. The colors used in the illustrations help evoke certain moods. For example, in the beginning of the book when the storm rained strong, the illustrations used dark somber colors, dark blues and grays. In contrast, after the storm and floods passed and the community worked together to recover, the illustrations were bright and colorful. This book has a very important message: what goes around comes around. The family in the story went around to all of their neighbors and offered help to evacuate low grounds, whether the neighbors accepted the help or not did not matter in the end. Because of the kind nature of the family, the entire community gathered together to help the family restore their damaged home. ( )

This is a delightful story of making the best of a bad situation that is totally out of your control. When it rains and rains and then rains some more, wise sage grandma knows that this does not bode well and that "It'll come a Tide."

And, it did come a tide, a tide of heavy streams of running water that clears everything in its path. As the pigs swirl in the current, and the furniture rides the water to another location, the good people of Clover, Martins and Poor Fork must ride out the tide and start all over again.

Lovely illustrations and a matter of fact story make this a like able read.

I thought this was a cute tale of a wise old grandma who knows whats is up with the weather. This book kept me smiling the whole time. Even when bad things are coming people are still focusing on their lives, and it gives the scary situation of a flood a little humor. This book is a book I would use when its raining outside, or when the children need a little bit of a laugh about weather. Being from the south it is always flooding around here. This book bring humor to the situation and I love it! ( )

A wonderful book, short and perfectly presented. I was vastly impressed. Wonderful. ( )

#37, 2007

This book was read aloud by Dixie Carter on an episode of "Reading Rainbow." It's the story of a flood which hits after too much snow and rain come together. It's a sweet book, and yet doesn't gloss over the devastation caused by the flood. Of course, it doesn't show the full effects . . . smiling pigs being washed away by the water for example; I couldn't help but remember the year the big flood hit North Carolina while we were living there. Those pigs weren't smiling - thousands of them were killed. Still, I think it's a nice introduction to this sort of natural disaster for children. ( )