The Rainy Day GrumpElectronic book published by ipicturebooks.com24 W. 25th St. New York, NY 10011 www.ipicturebooks.comAll rights reserved. Copyright 1998 by The Millbrook Press, Inc.Real Kids Readers and the Real Kids Readers logo are trademarks of The Millbrook Press, Inc.No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For Jackson and, of course, for Clay D. E.Special thanks to Hanna Andersson, Portland, OR, and to Cricket Hosiery for providing clothing; to East End Sporting Goods, Mattituck, NY, for providing sports equipment; to FAO Schwarz for providing toys and costumes; to Little Eric Shoes, NYC, for providing shoes; to Jon Bressler and to Mary Ellen Carlson, a.k.a. the Grandma Boutique.e-ISBN 1-58824-488-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataEaton, Deborah.The rainy day grump / Deborah Eaton ; photographs by Dorothy Handelman.p. cm. (Real kids readers. Level 2)Summary: Rosie wants her brother Clay to play dress-up, but he is grumpy because its raining and they cant play ball.ISBN 0-7613-2018-0 (lib. bdg.). ISBN 0-7613-2043-1 (pbk.)1. Rain and rainfall Fiction. 2. Baseball Fiction. 3. Play Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters Fiction. I. Handelman, Dorothy, ill. II. Title. III. Series. PZ7.E1338Ra1 1998 Edc21The Rainy Day GrumpBy Deborah EatonPhotographs by Dorothy HandelmanIt was raining, and that was bad news. On rainy days Clay was always a grump. You cannot play ball in the rain. And Clay LOVED to play ball.4“Come on, Clay,” said his sister, Rosie. “Come play with me.” But Clay just sat there.5Rosie made a sign. NO GRUMPS! She marched up and down. Clay looked out the window.67“I know,” said Rosie. “We can play dress-up.” She pulled this and that out of a big, old box. Soon she was a pirate. “YO-HO-HO!” she yelled. 9Clay put his hands over his ears. “Forget it!” he said. But Rosie pulled him onto her ship and set sail for far-off lands. On the way they passed a whale.10The Rainy Day Grump tossed his ball up and down. He did not want to play this game. “Go walk the plank,” he told Rosie. “What a grump!” said Rosie. But she did it, just for fun. “Glug, glug, glug.”1213Rosie put on a white hat and a star. “Ill be the good guy,” she told Clay. “You can be the bad guy.”14She put a black hat on his head. Then she gave him a horse to ride.1617Rosie rode her horse fast. She roped nine or ten bad guys. Then she roped herself.18Clay laughed and laughed.19Rosie made a face. She patted her tin star. “You better be good, Clay,” she said. “If youre not, Ill have to put you in jail.”20The Rainy Day Grump hit some home runs. “Give up, Rosie,” he said. “I want to play ball, not dress-up.”22But she did not give up. Not Rosie. “What about this?” she asked.23Clay had to grin. “Put it on,” said Rosie. “You can be king of the clowns. I will be the queen bee.”24She tried to sting Clay. But he was too fast for her.25“You need more clown stuff,” said Rosie. She looked in the box. “How about this? Do you want to go for a swim?”2627“No way!” said Clay. “But I know what we can play next.” He told Rosie his plan. “No more Rainy Day Grump!” said Rosie. “This will be the best dress-up yet.”29It was still raining. But Clay and Rosie did not care. You can get as wet as you want in a swimsuit. “Lets go, Rosie!” said Clay. “Lets play ball.”3031Phonic Guidelines Use the following guidelines to help your child read the words in The Rainy Day Grump.Short Vowels When two consonants surround a vowel, the sound of the vowel is usually short. This means you pronounce a as in apple, e as in egg, i as in igloo, o as in octopus, and u as in umbrella. Short-vowel words in this story include: bad, big, box, but, can, did, fun, get, had, hat, him, his, hit, not, runs, sat, set, ten, tin, wet, yet.Consonant Blends When two or more different consonants are side by side, they usually blend to make a combined sound. In this story, short-vowel words with consonant blends include: asked, best, black, dress, fast, glug, grin, grump, hands, just, king, lands, lost, next, plan, plank, ship, sting, swim.Double Consonants When two identical consonants appear side by side, one of them is silent. In this story, double-consonants appear in the short-vowel words still, stuff, tossed, will, yelled, and in the all-family word ball.R-Controlled Vowels When a vowel is followed by the letter r, its sound is changed by the r. In this story, words with r-controlled vowels include: far, for, her, horse, marched, more, star.Long Vowel and Silent E If a word has a vowel and ends with an e, usually the vowel is long and the e is silent. Long vowels are pronounced the same way as their alphabet names. In this story, words with a long vowel and silent e include: face, game, gave, home, made, nine, ride, rode, roped, wha