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Rain Fish
The work of contemporary author-illustrator Lois Ehlert demonstrates a clear commitment to celebrating the ordinary, unassuming objects and happenings of the natural world. Rain Fish offers a catalog of found objects that float by in streets and city gutters during rainstorms and invites readers to imagine what those objects might resemble. The poetic text invites curiosity about unwanted objects, particularly in city landscapes. That Ehlert’s collages are made from actual found objects, like feathers and crinkled paper, makes the narrative and its focus on the power of unassuming, ordinary objects all the more powerful. Such three-dimensionality enhances the sensory learning inherent to Ehlert’s books.