All I Want For Christmas Is Rain by Cori Brooke and Megan Forward

All I Want for

Christmas is Rain

For all the drought-affected Australian farmers, their children and families. Thank you for feeding Australia.

- C.B. For our farmers: we need you.

- M.F.

Published in Australia 2016

by New Frontier Publishing Pty Ltd ABN 67 126 171 757 48 Ross Street, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia www.newfrontier.com.au Text copyright Š 2016 Cori Brooke Illustrations copyright Š 2016 Megan Forward This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

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A Catalogue-In-Publication entry for this book is available from the National Library of Australia.

ISBN: 9781925059717 Designed by Celeste Hulme and Dana Brown Printed in China 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

All I Want for

Christmas is Rain Cori Brooke

Illustrated by Megan Forward

My parents are farmers. We needed the rain.

So I went to town on a long shiny train.

My mission was clear – I had hatched a great plan: I would ask for help from the great bearded man.