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Starred Review on December 1, 2017 | Picture Books
K-Gr 3—Young Kate helps tame the wind that disrupts the life of a man living atop a steep hill by planting a stand of aspen trees. Delightful cumulative text describes the ever-present wind that bangs shutters, bends boards, spills tea, and even drives the birds away. The rhythm of the lengthening sentences as the number of blown items builds seems to mirror the growing intensity of the wind's force. Finally, the man cries, "What to do?" His cry is heard by little Kate playing at the foot of the hill. Doodling on the sidewalk, sh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on February 1, 2018
This ecologically friendly picture book opens quietly, but it soon pivots from its lulling beginning ("The man lived all alone in the creaky house on the tip-top of a steep hill where a soft wind blew") to a story full of gale-force mayhem, as the man's laundry blows off the line and shutters bang and clapboards fly off the house. "What to do?" Enter young Kate, who puts her mind to it and comes up with a solution: plant trees. The years pass (a seri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More