One Windy Day

FAMILY & HOME STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). This title is perfect for children learning to read, these three heart-warming stories have a special message: however stormy life gets, your friends will help you though! When the wild wind brings down the big tree in the wood, the animals have nowhere to call home. Kind Miss Chutney takes them in...but then the rain comes. It splits and splots and threatens to spoil her home, too. Her new friends want to help, but what can they do? Never fear, for a sunny day brings a bright idea...The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. It features well-loved authors, classic characters and favourite topics, so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick up. It's the first step towards a lasting love of reading. Level 2 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for readers who are growing in confidence and are beginning to enjoy longer stories. Ages 5+

Several children enjoy playing in the snow.

A young girl discovers all the things the wind can do, by playing and dancing along with it.

A cumulative tale in which various neighbors try to rescue Janey's kite from a tree until she has to rescue both the kite and the neighbors.

Tara and Jay compare ways to see the wind in this charmingly illustrated story. Pair this fiction tale with its companion photo-illustrated, nonfiction title, When the Wind Blows.

When Flora and her pesky little brother, Crispin, are whisked away by a swirling and swooping wind, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to give her brother away. With tempting offers from a dragonfly, the man in the moon, and even the wind itself, she will find it difficult to choose. But Flora would do anything to get rid of Crispin, wouldn’t she? Jeanne Birdsall’s utterly charming picture book takes flight in Matt Phelan’s twisting, twirling watercolors, brimming with wit and whimsy.

On a windy Halloween night as a boy is returning home through the woods after trick-or-treating, he hears scary noises behind him.

An acclaimed artist celebrates the creative possibilities of macramé and knots in this memoir and guide featuring projects and tutorials. Every day for a year, artist Windy Chien learned to tie a new kind of knot and then shared the results on Instagram—a project that both reinvented her life and revolutionized knot art. In The Year of Knots, Chien describes how knot-making led her on a path of discovery. She shares projects, tutorials, and transformative personal stories, all aimed at inspiring readers to make knotting—and creativity in general—part of a meditative daily practice. The knots in this book are gorgeously documented step-by-step. Knotted projects abound—from wall hangings to a necklace, a dog leash, a hanging light, and more. At the heart of the story is the simple, empowering idea that a single year is all the time you need to make a life-changing creative leap.