Blue's Best Rainy Day (Blue's Clues (8x8 Paperback)) [Paperback]

Deborah Reber (Author), Kevin Cardinali (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2000 | Series: Blue's Clues (8x8 Paperback) (Book 3)

It's raining outside, and Blue has planned a special scavenger hunt for all her friends to follow! Where will Blue's scavenger hunt lead? Find out in this interactive story.

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About the Author

Deborah Reber is an accomplished author for tweens and teens.  A former children's television executive, Deborah uses her writing, speaking, and volunteering to empower and inspire girls everywhere to live their best life.  Deborah is the author of two Simon Pulse non-fiction books: In Their Shoes and Chill. She lives in Seattle.  Please visit Deborah at www.deborahreber.com or www.smartgirlsknow.com. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon; 1 edition (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689832796
• ISBN-13: 978-0689832796
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Debbie Reber hails from Reading, Pennsylvania, a city best known as the home of the 'Reading Railroad' from Monopoly and darned good pretzels.


Debbie graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Broadcast & Cable. (This was back in the stone ages when 'cable television' was a new phenomenon'it got its own major!). After graduation, she moved to NYC to make it big in the world of broadcast news, just like Holly Hunter's character in the movie by the same name. When that didn't happen, she decided to save the world instead, and produced videos, PSAs (public service announcements) and documentaries for CARE, UNICEF and the PBS show Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television.

While living in NYC, Debbie apparently decided that working fulltime didn't keep her busy enough, so she simultaneously attended The New School for Social Research, where she earned her MA in Media Studies, with a focus on documentary and media criticism.

With even more student loans to pay off, Debbie left the world of nonprofit and jumped into children's television, where she worked on Blue's Clues for Nickelodeon and developed original programming for Cartoon Network. It was while working at Cartoon Network that she sold her first book, Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners.

She loved the process of writing a book, and loved seeing her name in print even more. So in 2003, Debbie turned in the key to her corporate office and traded it in for a lime green Ikea chair, an all-in-one desk unit and a tiny corner of her den to eke out a living as a fulltime writer. She's never looked back. (Okay, there was that one time she looked back, but that was a while ago, and since then, things have been going smashingly well).

Debbie has written a number of books for teens, tweens and even preschoolers, including the new series from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, The Real Deal and more than a dozen Blue's Clues books. Her latest book, In Their Shoes: Amazing Women Describing Amazing Jobs (Simon Pulse) comes out in April 2007.

Debbie lives in Seattle with her strikingly handsome husband Derin, adorable little boy Asher and trusty, white German Shepherd, Baxter. She is a volunteer running coach with the Puget Sound chapter of Girls on the Run, and an advisory board member for the teen girl mentoring organization, WriteGirl.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What To Do On A Rainy Day?, August 18, 2005

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Janet Boyer "Author, Blogger, Mystic" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue's Best Rainy Day (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Blue's Clues (8x8 Tb)) (School & Library Binding)

Blue has invited Magenta, Purple Kangaroo, Green Puppy, Yellow Kitten and Orange Kitten over for a play date. The only problems is that it's raining outside!

Blue then decides to set up a scavenger hunt *inside* the house and, with the help of Steve and her friends, they go about the house finding the items on the list.

There are socks, a box, buttons, fabric, glue, and yarn all over Blue's house. What does Blue want to do with all these items once they're found?

You and your youngster will find out when you read Blue's Best Rainy Day. Filled with colorful pictures, children have the ability to test their discrimination skills as they find the specific items on Blue's scavenger hunt list.

Not only that, children are shown that optimism and ingenuity can turn a potentially disappointing situation into an opportunity to use their imagination and have lots of fun...fun they may not have had if things turned out how they expected.

My son requests this book quite often and I'm sure other young readers will enjoy this delightful book as well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good, I guess, November 4, 2010

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K. R. "Mudcats12" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blue's Best Rainy Day (Blue's Clues (8x8 Paperback)) (Paperback)

Blues Clues the show burns a hole in my brain if I watch it for more that 2 minutes, but my son loves it. The next best thing is the books. Bright pictures and simple reading....and no annoying actors. Win-win.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun!, April 20, 2009

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Wendy Newman "Owen's Mom" (Oshkosh, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue's Best Rainy Day (Blue's Clues (8x8 Paperback)) (Paperback)

If your child is a fan of Blue's Clues, he/she will be a fan of the book!