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The Windy Day
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (1998-05-01)
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H-o-o-o-o Hummmm. It's another pleasant day in a quiet town, until a blustery gust whooshes in and causes quite a stir! As the townfolk lament the whirling wedding cakes, airborne alarm clocks, and bouncing bananas, one little boy thinks to greet this wonderful wind and gets a taste of how wide and exciting the world can be. Award-winning illustrator G. Brian Karas wreaks magnificient havoc in this wise story of routine turned upside down.One Potato Review
As much as any children’s author and illustrator working today, Karas has a gift for believably relating the very little (kids) and the very big (a wind storm here) while finally diminishing neither. “My name is Bernard!” yells a boy to a gale that needed to pass through him as it did through long-ago kings and queens and dinosaurs and Viking’s sails and the Great Wall of China. This in the middle of a ho-hum day that started like any other. Magical.
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