Susie encounters a real-living raindrop named Ronald. He showed her a world of color and beauty but couldn't stay around. Someday he'll return!

Astral travel, ancestral healing and shamanism collide with a journey deep into the Australian Outback. Stuck in port while the ship is repaired. Reilly, Jim and Ry agree to transport some cargo, bypassing recent floods. The quickest route is the infamous Gun Barrel Highway, little more than a dirt track traversing hundreds of kilometres between Western Australia and Alice Springs. New friends and old allies cross their path as they try to evade the danger following them into the desert wilderness. wilderness.

This volume moves beyond the focus of most ""emergent literacy"" research, to how children build knowledge in a classroom setting. The focus is on the process of literacy learning rather than patterns in children's products.

Includes songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment.