Just as rainbows silently appear this book begins slowly building filling with falling rain until the rainbow finally shows.

It is a book of few words, but those words matched with the illustrations by John Wallace prove the old saying- a picture is worth a thousand words, especially to young readers. The two page spread of the bright rainbow up above with the small young children in yellow rain slickers pointing up to it down below a dark bluish grey sky show the wonder and awe of a rainbow. Then, the next two pages are filled with the brilliant seven bands of color as the rainbow’s spectrum of colors are listed. Followed by a two page diagram of sunlight going through a giant raindrop which bends the light into what we know as a rainbow.

Now the reader will see a double rainbow, followed by an “upside down” rainbow (20-21), followed by a rainbow at a park fountain, and at a waterfall. Then, it is revealed rainbows are full circles if you can view them from up in the sky, so there are no ends and no pots of gold. Finally, the important fact of needing to have your back to the sun is revealed. The illustrations end with that bit of information, but the very last page states five more “Facts about rainbows” not previously stated in the book.