Hear the Wind Blow

by Doe Boyle (Author) Emily Paik (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
The stages of the Beaufort wind scale, portrayed with precision and also with poetic free verse, style, and imagination. It will stretch readers' imaginations as we see the wind pick up from a kiss of air, to a gentle breeze that shivers the shifting grasses, to a roiling hurricane that makes tree roots shudder.
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Kirkus

Starred Review
An artful blend of language, illustration, and science. (glossary, suggested reading) (Picture book. 4-8)

Publishers Weekly

In elegant rhyme, Boyle (Blink!) introduces the Beaufort wind force scale, with "each stanza, in order, one of the thirteen categories." As a dark-haired, light-skinned child and guardian walk their dog, the wind progresses from calm air and breezes to gale, storm, and finally hurricane force. Internal and end rhymes pack a sensory punch, inviting readers to observe the effects of different wind types. Alternating neighborhood and beach scene shows wind speed still climbing ("Watch the smoke of campfires rise--/ tendrils drift toward clouded skies./ Flames that lick, sparks that flicker;/ now the breeze grows bolder, quicker"). As the wind reaches hurricane force, the visuals skew slightly improbable, maintaining a feeling of safety as the family cozily storm-watches through a massive, uncovered window: "When the hurricane comes roiling, / popcorn's popped, the kettle's boiling." In her picture book debut, Paik employs stylized, softly textured illustrations that center the child, including at the post-hurricane neighborhood cleanup. An age-appropriate meteorological foray. Back matter includes an author's note explaining why wind occurs, the history of the Beaufort scale, a full-page graphic of the scale with descriptions of observable effects--on land and sea--of various wind speeds, a glossary, and a reading list. Ages 4-8. (Mar.)

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Review quotes

STARRED REVIEW! "An artful blend of language, illustration, and science."—Kirkus Reviews starred review

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780807545614
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Publication date
March 01, 2021
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF042000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General
JNF051160 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Disasters
JNF037080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Weather
Library of Congress categories
Nature
Winds
Windstorms
Beaufort scale

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