Local Author Asks: Where Do the Animals Go When It Rains?

This children’s book by Janet S. Crown, proves that reading and writing a book can be fun for the whole family. Janet Crown runs “Burn 60 Fitness Studios†in Brentwood Village.
Janet Crown has just written Where do the Animals Go When It Rains? (All proceeds go to The Painted Turtle, a camp-based program serving children with more than 30 medical conditions – see www.thepaintedturtle.org).
Reading and writing a book can be fun for the whole family. Crown wrote the educational book with the help of her children during their bedtime routine. While she was tucking in her kids, they would pick an animal and together they’d make up rhymes about what the animal did while it rained. With its bright illustrations and rhyming verse, this book is perfect for young readers.
This book answers a simple question that many of us have asked. The text is fun featuring plenty of rhythm and rhyme. The font used for the rhyming words stands out on the page for the budding reader to follow. The illustrations by Daron Rosenberg are simple and cute. He uses an earth tone pallet that is perfect for portraying the animals and their environments.
The story is exactly what the title says. It’s about animals and what happens to them on a rainy day. The illustrations show baby animals with their families, gathering together for shelter during the rain.
After graduating from Denison University in 1985 with a Bachelor’s Degree in History, Janet Crown went on to receive her Master’s Degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois, relocating to Los Angeles in 1993.
Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Janet Crown joined Creative Artists Agency (CAA), creating a new department in the commercial and sponsorship division. In 1995 she became Vice President of Client Services at Focus Media in Santa Monica. In 2005, Janet opened her own fitness studio. Now in its seventh year, Burn 60 is expanding throughout Southern California.
She and her husband Steve Robinson, who have five children, founded Good Kids in Bad Places, in association with Operation Progress and the LAPD, funding private school education grades K-12 for kids in South Central Los Angeles.