Bringing The Rain To Kapiti Plain
written by Verna Aardema, pictures by Beatriz Vidal
published by Puffin Books, 1992
A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. Verna Aardema has brought the original story closer to the English nursery rhyme by putting in a cumulative refrain and giving the tale the rhythm of “The House That Jack Built.”