Whirligigs & Weathervanes: A Celebration of Wind Gadgets with Dozens of Creative Projects to Make [Paperback]

David Schoonmaker (Author), Bruce Woods (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1992

“A delightful collection of projects for creative students and beginning woodworkers, illustrated with large, full-color photos. Includes traditional whirling ducks and airplanes, as well as a shakin’ wind-powered Elvis and racing Coyote and Roadrunner. This wry history...is a gem.”—School Library Journal. “Full of ingenious designs.”—Country Almanac.

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From School Library Journal

YA-- A delightful collection of projects for creative students and beginning woodworkers, illustrated with large, full-color photos. The authors include traditional whirling ducks and airplanes, as well as a shakin' wind-powered Elvis and racing Coyote and Roadrunner. This wry history of an All-American art form is a gem.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806983655
• ISBN-13: 978-0806983653
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #559,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the easiest whirligig book to understand on the market!, July 19, 2005

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Betsy R. Marks (Birmingham, Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whirligigs & Weathervanes: A Celebration of Wind Gadgets with Dozens of Creative Projects to Make (Paperback)

I teach arts and crafts at a summer camp in the North Georgia mountains and am always looking for some fun, original folk art to do with the kids. After buying several other whirligig books on the market, I decided to buy this one, hoping it would be easier to understand. It was! Additionally, the photo gallery is phenominal. Whimsical works of art laughing in the breeze. If you are interested in building whirligigs, this would be the first book I would recommend.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whirligigs: Imagination in motion, June 21, 2001

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marion Dewar (Chico, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whirligigs & Weathervanes: A Celebration of Wind Gadgets with Dozens of Creative Projects to Make (Paperback)

Here's a "how to" text that works! WHIRLIGIGS AND WEATHERVANES is beautifully formatted with rich bold photography, clean helpful graphics and clear textual instruction. After reading Paul Fleischman's WHIRLIGIG, I wanted my students to share the experience of the novel's protagonist, 16-year-old Brent Bishop, who must build four whirligigs. Brent finds a used book that gets him started. It's simple, clear and useful, and it provides the basic skills and knowledge Brent needs to create his own inspired inventions. I discovered WHIRLIGIGS AND WEATHERVANES while searching for a very similar title Fleischman used in his story - Make Your Own Whirligigs and Weathervanes - which just MAY be an invention inspired by Schoonmaker and Woods's text!) My husband and I are now finishing OUR first whirligig - "Soul of the Woodworker" - incorporating a profile of my husband's head and a silhouette of my left hand! Instructions are found on pp 44-5!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very helpful, November 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Whirligigs & Weathervanes: A Celebration of Wind Gadgets with Dozens of Creative Projects to Make (Paperback)

This book is filled with good quality color pictures of many projects. It also explains how to make the complicated parts of wind toys. It tells what kinds of wood will hold up, and what kinds of wood will fail. It improved my whirligig designs greatly, and added many new ideas for my new ones. Well worth the money.