I am the Wind

by Michael Karg, Sophie Diao (Illustrator)

Overview

Join the wind as it swings, swirls, and soars on its remarkable journey around the globe.

I whoosh over tundra,
yodel over Everest,
skim westward on whitecaps!

With dynamic text and atmospheric illustrations, this book invites you to celebrates the world all around us through the unique perspective of the wind. Journey through the frozen forests and bayou bogs, wonder at the northern lights, and meet unique animals like wolverines and olinguitos along the way.

I am the wind and I am everywhere!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624149221
Publisher:	Page Street Publishing
Publication date:	11/17/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	370,119
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Michael Karg balances writing with being a feline veterinarian and home-schooling his three children with his wife. He lives with his family in Detour, Maryland, in an old house on 11 acres with chickens, ducks, rabbits, and some sheep. This is his debut picture book.

Sophie Diao loves illustrating natural wonders and breathtaking landscapes. As a Google Doodler and freelance artist, she has created art highlighting Earth Day, the first day of the seasons, the northern lights, and the national parks. She lives in San Francisco with a scruffy dog and many plants. This is her first picture book.

Editorial Reviews

"A gorgeous, breathtaking experience." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Playful, evocative text and art define this creative nonfiction picture book [...] I Am the Wind serves as an age-appropriate introduction and global ode to this restless force of nature." — Shelf Awareness

From the Publisher

★ 2020-09-15
The wind travels the world meeting creatures in their habitats on five continents.

This powerful, omniscient force narrates its own adventures. First felt whisking up leaves and turning umbrellas inside out on an autumn day in a city, the wind quickly moves on to fly with a barred owl through “frost and fog” before continuing northward to frolic with a wolverine in high, snowy mountain peaks, then racing with wolves as they chase their prey. Across day and night, mountains and valleys, the wind sleeps with musk ox and blows beneath northern lights with reindeer. In each place wind has an effect on the wildlife it meets: “whistling” across a snow leopard’s ledge in the highlands, delighting chimps in a storm in Congo, helping migratory geese on their journey, boosting petrels as they fly above the sea, flitting high in the clouds with an olinguito, or stirring up puddles in the bayou to startle gopher frogs. Karg gives voice to the wind in lovely, poetic language and syntax, following each encounter with the bold, assertive title statement, “I AM THE WIND.” Each creature, whether familiar or obscure, and each location is seen in a double-page spread with beautiful, light-filled, mesmerizing illustrations that are at once accurate and ethereal. A map showing the locations of all the animals represented and a bit of further information about them concludes the work and brings readers back to Earth after this incredible journey.

A gorgeous, breathtaking experience. (Picture book. 4-10)

Kirkus Reviews