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Gates of the Windby Kathryn LaskyWhen old Gamma Lee decides to leave the green, peaceful valley where she's lived all of her life, her neighbors think she's crazy. "This is the best place in the world!" they always say. But how can Gamma Lee know it's the best place in the world if she's never been anywhere else? So she packs up her belongings, takes along her faithful mule, and heads up the mountains to a place she has always heard about - the Gates of the Wind. When she finally arrives, Gamma Lee is ready to build a house and settle in - until she meets the mountaintop's only inhabitant, a fierce wind that doesn't want company. It seems as though everything Gamma Lee does is undone by one gust of the meddling wind. How will she manage to make a life for herself and her mule when all the wind wants is to blow them right back down the valley? Other Information* Stevens (the illustrator of Eric Kimmel's Anansi books) captures the story's quirky, adventuresome spirit, pinning the wind's energy-and Gamma Lee's-to the pages with the fluid lines of her colorful brush strokes... Publishers Weekly * Stevens's drawings, done in watercolor, acrylic, pencil, and pastel, are appropriately wispy and windy in composition and form. Gamma Lee, a wiry, colorful eccentric, stands in marked contrast to the drab, complacent villagers; and, if the artist's depiction of baggage-laden fish seems a bit out of tune, her stoical donkey strikes just the right note... School Library Journal |
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