It Is the Wind

What is the noise I hear,
that wakens me,
that shakens me,
the noise, I hear, in the dark ...
Is it the owl, the cat, or the rabbit?

Lyrical prose by Ferida Wolff and richly textured paintings by Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist James Ransome invite young readers to come along and explore the magical world that opens up between dusk and dawn.

Ferida Wolff is the author of fifteen books for young people, including A Year for Kiko, Watch Out for Bears!, On Halloween Night, Seven Loaves of Bread, A Weed Is a Seed, and Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book. She lives in Cherry Hill, NJ.

James Ransome's work has appeared in nearly fifty books for children, including Uncle Jed's Barbershop, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and This Is the Dream. His highly acclaimed illustrations for Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color won the NAACP Image Award. He teaches illustration at Syracuse University and lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with his family.