Willa And The Wind - Hardcover

Del Negro, Janice M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076145232X ISBN 13: 9780761452324

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, 2005

Synopsis

A mischievous north wind, Old Windy, and a dishonest innkeeper try to outsmart young Willa Rose Mariah McVale, who must use trickery to claim what is rightfully hers.

About this title

About the Author:

Del Negro is a Marshall Cavendish author.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-4–A girl visits the North Wind to rebuke him for keeping the rain clouds away and for blowing away the last bit of cornmeal. Old Windy, blustery and only slightly chastened, provides her with a magical, food-producing handkerchief, but a wicked innkeeper whom she encounters on her route home steals it from her. Willa returns twice more to Old Windy, who gives her a second magical gift–a gold-producing goat, quickly stolen by the innkeeper–and finally a third–a whistle to call up the wind and spin the man until he returns her other gifts. Del Negro's retelling of Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe's The Lad Who Went to the North Wind invests the tale with an immediacy that will be great for telling or reading aloud. The magic, combined with the satisfaction of justice served and patience and courage rewarded, is a perfect recipe, told with a twinkle. Solomon's big-boned, big-eyed elongated figures echo the story's northern roots but have a delicious energy of their own in the swirling full-color, full-page illustrations.–Kathie Meizner, Montgomery County Public Libraries, Chevy Chase, MD
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About this edition

• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 076145232X
• ISBN 13: 9780761452324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Solomon Heather