Kate, Who Tamed The Wind
Book description
Award-winning author Liz Garton Scanlon presents a young, rhythmic read-aloud about a girl who solves a windy problem with an environmentally sound solution: planting trees.
A wild wind blows on the tippy-top of a steep hill, turning everything upside down for the man who lives there. Luckily, Kate comes up…
Why read it?
1 author picked Kate, Who Tamed The Wind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book by my friend and colleague Liz Garton Scanlon really felt as if it were speaking to my own book.
It starts out as the story of a man living all alone in a creaky house on top of a hill—then there’s that wind, and young Kate at the bottom of the hill! The text has a wonderful, irregular rhythm that flutters words around in the mind the way the wind lifts a leaf or bangs a shutter.
Look at the text leaping over a single dramatic wordless spread to create the final turn of this story. Nice afterword…
From Uma's list on picture books about trees.
Want books like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind?
Our community of 10,000+ authors has personally recommended 68 books like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind.
Browse books like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind
5 book lists we think you will like!
Interested in New York City, presidential biography, and New York State?
10,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them. Browse their picks for the best books about New York City, presidential biography, and New York State.