Peter Yarrow Author Event and Musical Performance

IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING 
Performed by PETER, PAUL AND MARY 
Illustrated by Christine Davenier 
A Picture Book and CD Sure to Bring Out Bright Smiles—on Even the Gloomiest Day!

The original 1960’s chart topping trio Peter, Paul and Mary return with their new children’s book, IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING featuring a CD with three songs performed by Peter, Paul and Mary, tucked inside a fun, fanciful, full-color picture book illustrated by Christine Davenier.

•Over a five-decade span, Peter, Paul and Mary won five Grammy Awards, produced thirteen top 40 hits, and earned eight gold and five platinum albums;

•Peter, Paul and Mary’s second single, “If I Had a Hammer,” became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, and was performed by the trio, along with “Blowing In The Wind,” at the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech;

•IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING offers a brand-new CD, featuring Peter, Paul and Mary’s original recording of the title song. The CD also includes Peter singing “Make-Believe Town” and Noel Paul Stookey performing “Glory of Love;”

• Davenier’s captivating illustrations bring not only a bunch of playful children vibrantly to life, but also a cast of beloved nursery-rhyme characters including the cow that jumped over the moon, the cat with its fiddle, and the famed Jack and Jill; and

• The book version of “Puff, The Magic Dragon,” a Peter, Paul and Mary classic cherished by children for nearly 50 years, was the number one children’s bestseller in Publisher’s Weekly for sixteen consecutive weeks. Their picture book and CD of The Night Before Christmas, featuring Mary Travers’ final recording, also became a New York Times Best-Seller.

Charlesbridge Publishing/A Peter Yarrow Book for Imagine!; July 2012; ISBN: 978-1-936140-77-0; $17.95; Hardcover with Jacket & CD).