The Wind Blew

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, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s umbrella, Priscilla’s balloon, the twins’ scarves, even the wig on the judge’s head. But just when the wind was about to carry everything out to sea, it changed its mind! With rhyming verse and colorful illustrations, Pat Hutchins takes us on a merry chase that is well worth the effort.

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

This book is funny.! I really enjoyed reading it. I love the way Pat Hutchins write about the wind and how it blew all the things belonging to other people along but in the end of the book everyone ends up having all their stuff that was blown along by the wind.
Age: 3-5 years old
Source: Pierce College Library at Fort Steilacoom

Ages 3-7. The wind blew and hilarity ensued. Priscilla loses her balloon to the wind and chases it all over town. Along the way other townspeople lose various items to the wind and soon the entire town is chasing the wind.

This book was exciting to read to the students as they each retold what the wind blew next. It is great for working on memory and counting some of the items that were picked IP.

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 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 show more book kept children envolved and as if they were in the book being blown away by the wind. show less