Kate, Who Tamed The Wind

By Liz Garton Scanlon, Lee White (illustrator),

Book cover of 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…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

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.

If you love Kate, Who Tamed The Wind...

Ad

Book cover of The City Sings Green & Other Poems About Welcoming Wildlife

The City Sings Green & Other Poems About Welcoming Wildlife by Erica Silverman, Ginnie Hsu (illustrator),

A unique and artful blend of poetry, science, and activism, this picture book shows how city dwellers can intervene so that nature can work her magic.

In Oslo, Norway: citizens create a honeybee highway that stretches from one side of the city to the other, offering flowerpots, resting spots, bee…

Want books like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 67 books like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind.

Browse books like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind

Book cover of The Wisdom Of Trees: How Trees Work Together to Form a Natural Kingdom
Book cover of The Tree in Me
Book cover of Stand Like a Cedar

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,674

readers submitted
so far, will you?

Ad

📚 If you like Kate, Who Tamed The Wind, you might also like...

Book cover of Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention

Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down! by Carrie A. Pearson, Nancy Carpenter (illustrator),

A delightful and distinctive picture book biography about Dr. Virginia Apgar, who invented the standard, eponymous test for evaluating newborn health used worldwide thousands of times every day.

You might know about the Apgar Score. But do you know the brilliant, pioneering woman who invented it? Born at the turn…

Book cover of From Cells to Ourselves: The Story of Evolution

From Cells to Ourselves by Gill Arbuthnott, Chris Nielsen (illustrator),

4.5 billion years ago, Earth was forming - but nothing could have survived there…

From Cells to Ourselves is the incredible story of how life on earth started and how it gradually evolved from the first simple cells to the abundance of life around us today. Walk with dinosaurs, analyse…

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in New York City, presidential biography, and New York State?

New York City 1,153 books
New York State 565 books