The wind is powerful and stormy, mischievous and unpredictable. In this magical story, a young girl goes soaring, tumbling, and twirling on her own exciting windy-day adventure.
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From Publishers Weekly
Following their Baby Duck's New Friend, the father-and-son team offers a rollicking testament to the excitement whipped up by the wind. A girl watching a golden leaf swept away on the breeze exclaims, "I want to play like a windy day." The girl, the leaf and the wind (depicted as a cavorting, childlike apparition shown in profile, its facial contours matching the girl's) frolic across the pages. The girl's rhyming speech pays homage to their antics ("I want to zoom down hillsides/ and race through streets./ I want to scatter seeds,/ turn windmills,/ fly kites,/ wave flags,/ and snap wet sheets"). Here, the wind stretches out its hand to turn a windmill while the girl does a cartwheel and clasps a dandelion whose seeds billow in the gust. Brisk, digitally colorized pen-and-ink drawings include sundry background details (e.g., an upended trash can, laundry billowing on the line between two buildings, etc.). Curves, swirls and swaths of layered color give a fluid feel to the artwork. A fun fall read. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1-In a poetic text, a girl imagines herself doing all of the things that the wind can do. The brief story is filled with action verbs as the child follows the personified wind through the countryside, into town, and along the beach and riverside. The exciting pen-and-ink illustrations were colorized in Adobe Photoshop. Broad and sweeping spreads are filled with movement as the child tumbles, races, and flies until she settles at the end "like a gentle breeze." While the pictures are large enough for group sharing, there are many clever and amusing details to be found on closer inspection. Youngsters will find socks and neckties flying through the air, a magician's hat complete with rabbit blowing away, and a TV inside an apartment turned on to a weather report. This book will be useful for units on the weather, or simply for reading together.
Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Knocking off a star for the bra,
This review is from: Like a Windy Day (Paperback)
The illustrations are charming. The verses are poetical. I'd have given it five stars except for the gratuitous and prominent inclusion of a bra on the laundry-line page. Some little boys might react with low-culture body-part laughter (the same way they might laugh at the word "butt") and in innocent others, the undergarment might inspire a curiosity that was otherwise dormant. For me as a parent, neither response is to be encouraged in a book about a windy day.
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Wonderful Story,
By Watchful Mom (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Like a Windy Day (Hardcover)
Frank Asch is one of our favorite authors. His books are so free and playful and simple in the way a child understands the world. The illustrations are always lovely. Like a Windy Day is a treat for any child.
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I want to play like a windy day. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I want to play like a windy day. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Earth and I by Frank Asch in Back Cover
- The Sun Is My Favorite Star by Frank Asch in Back Cover
- Baby Duck's New Friend by Devin Asch in Back Flap
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