Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities.

A child and the wind plant very different gardens.

Provides facts about wind, discusses windy day activities, describes how severe winds can cause destruction and how wind can be harnessed and used for energy, and provides instructions for making an anemometer.

Retells the fable, "The Wind and the Sun, " in which Wind, Rain, and Sun attempt to remove the cap of a shepherdess. Collage illustrations include symbols based on seal characters of Chinese pictograms.

"Once upon a time, high atop the world, there lived a boy named Billy Hightower and the wind. When a new neighbor appears--a girl in a red hat--Billy Hightower can hardly wait to meet her and introduce himself. But the wind has other ideas"--

Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.

To save heavily pollulted Earth and his ailing mother, eleven-year-old Hurricane must travel to magical worlds, aboard a giant, winged tiger, to rescue the wind and other elements.--

"Rhyming couplets celebrate windy weather, the sensory experience of wind, and the activities it makes possible from a preschooler’s perspective. Mixed-media collage art shows young children engaging in outdoor activities, including scattering milkweed seeds, spinning pinwheels, flying kites, and struggling against a strong wind. A final page includes age-appropriate STEM activities related to wind."--