This book is an illustrated version of the original The Child's Rainy Day Book by Mary White. “We need only to look back about twenty years to realise how natural all this is. What do we remember? Not the toys that were brought us when father and mother went on a journey. They are very hazy—these visions of a doll in silk and lace, and a donkey with real hair and a nodding head. What became of them afterward? We forget. But the games we "made up," the paper dolls we cut from fashion papers, the target we laboured to make of coiled straw—these are as fresh in our memories as if we had played with them yesterday.Shall we not answer the question by giving the children something to do, not by entertaining them but by helping them to entertain themselves.”