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For months the sun has burned down on Lila's Kenyan village. It is too hot to gather firewood, too hot to weed the garden, even too hot to milk the cow. Without rain the well will run dry and the crops will fail. Lila is so worried that when her grandfather whispers to her the secret of rain, she decides to go and talk to the sky herself. How Lila saves the village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows is told in David Conway's elegant and spare prose style, which is complemented perfectly by Jude Daly's beautiful and poignant illustrations.

David Conway was born in Ireland but moved to England as a baby, and has lived here ever since. He currently works in the home, bringing up his daughter and son, and writing for children. His poetry has been published in many anthologies, including Loose Change in association with War on Want. This is his first picture book for Frances Lincoln. Jude Daly's titles for Frances Lincoln include The Gift of the Sun, written by Dianne Stewart, which was chosen as one of Child Education's Best Books of 1996; The Stone, written by Dianne Hofmeyr; her own retelling of an Irish Cinderella story entitled Fair Brown and Trembling; Diane Hofmeyr's Egyptian creation story The Star-Bearer; and The Elephant's Pillow, written by Diana Reynolds Roome.