The Day it Rained in Colours

When Sarah, Tom and Nick descend in a brightly coloured balloon, the people of Greyland discover something is missing from their world - colour. They all want their land to be colourful too, but both the wizard's and the witch's efforts at brightening things up are less than satisfactory. It's only when they ask the long-forgotten Maker for help that colour returns. There is a clear, though not obtrusive, religious element in this story which was first published in the 1970s and has long been popular with teachers doing a topic on 'colours'. It's a pity, however, that Julie Park's illustrations, which portray a multi-racial Greyland, don't show Little Grey Boy as the 'Brown Boy' the text dictates.