The Wind Blew

Great drawings. Rhyming story where the page you are on predicts the next.

This book is a good example of poetry because as it goes though the story of the wind collecting all the objects each line rhymes.
media: tempara paint

This book is about how the wind blows in different ways. This is a great book for making predictions and to use for science. What will the wind take next? You never know. Follow the characters of this book as they try to survive the wind

Cute story showing the effects of wind

This is pretty average Pat Hutchins. The wind keeps adding items to its collection as it gusts through town only to drop them all at once and move on to pushing a sailboat through the water. Nice and simple, yet fun.

The Wind Blew is a great book for children of the ages of 4-10 to read. This book has a great story plot in which the wind blew. The wind blew so strong one day that items kept blowing away from their owners. The fist thing that blew away witht the wind was an umbrella. The secon was a kite, and so

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on. As all of the items were blowing away in the wind the wind finally came to a stop and dropped all of the items to the ground. Once the items hit the ground another big gust of wind came and blew off into the deep sea.
This book was a fun and interesting book to read. It allows the children to think about what the wind could blow away on the next page and kept them engaged throughout the story. The colors that were portrayed within this book kept children envolved and as if they were in the book being blown away by the wind.

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This book talks about the wind and how it goes in different directions.
Ages 4-7
Pierce College Library

How the wind was so strong and it blew every and anything in its way.

This book is a fun book that shows what happens once the wind start blowing.
2-5
Pierce College Library

The wind was so strong that it started to blow things out of everyone's hands.

I am trained as a K-6 teacher, and I think I know why Hutchins' books like this are popular for the little ones' classrooms. However, I am not enamored of the story line here, the rhythm is ok but the rhyme stinks, and the illustrations rub me the wrong way. I mean, look at Mr. White, in the

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trenchcoat: what happened to his head?! Did the wind push it flat & long??

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