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When the Wind Stops
Paperback, 32 pages
Published by HarperCollins (1997-02-28)
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Amazon Description
Where does the wind go when it stops?
When a little boy asks this question at the end of a happy day, his mother explains that the wind does not stop-it blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else.
Reassuringly, she tells him that nothing ever ends, it simply begins in another place or in another way. Rain goes back into the clouds to create new storms, waves fold back upon the sea to become new waves, and the day moves on to make way for the night, bringing the darkness and stars for the little boy to dream in.
Charlotte Zolotow's lyrical prose and Stefano Vitale's rich illustrations make this a beautiful celebration of the cycle of life.
One Potato Review
You don’t have to look very far past the cover to appreciate the starry magnificence of this book. As it happens, the great, prolific Charlotte Zolotow provides the narrative here, about a boy at his bedtime reflecting on all that can happen in one day, and days to follow, and days on the other side of the world. Still, it’s Stefano Vitale who has finally found the perfect vehicle for his radiant wood paintings - of deserts and mountains and oceans and chockablock seasons. Says the mother, “Nothing ends,” but it’s one thing to put your faith in the inexorable cycles of nature, and quite another when someone this masterly is able to paint the way.
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