The Turnaround Wind

Arnold Lobel

ISBN 10: 0060239883 ISBN 13: 9780060239886

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1988

Synopsis

The reader turns the book upside down to see what happens when a fierce wind blows through a country town one afternoon, affecting many different people and animals out enjoying the summer air.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Thirty characters venture out on a hot summer day when suddenly "dark and ominous clouds" appear in the sky. A turnabout wind seems "to turn the whole world around and around and upside down," and the story turns into a series of clever optical illusionsdouble pictures that can be viewed right side up or upside down. The shifty-eyed face of a thief, turned upside down, becomes a wailing baby dressed in blue. An organ grinder is transformed into a parrot. The illustrations are complicated enough for repeated readings, and the wind-blown characters are eccentrically droll. One lady's cape, green and billowy as a cabbage leaf, is changed into another lady's wind-blown umbrella. The plump king turns into the queen who is definitely "not amused at the weather." Then, just as suddenly as it began, the wind stops. Undaunted by chaos, the cheerful characters dust themselves off and walk "serenely in the sunshine of a lovely afternoon." Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060239883
• ISBN 13: 9780060239886
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32