Item
The North Wind & the Sun
- Title
- en_US The North Wind & the Sun
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dustjacket (book cover)
- en_US First printing
- Philip Stead
- Creator
- en_US Stead, Philip See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Stead, Philip
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:10Z
- 2023-11
- en_US 2023
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:10Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2023
- Abstract
- en_US This book is an immediate favorite of mine! It develops a fable the way a fable should be developed into a full story. Stead uses crayon and colored pencil to give a gentleness to the story that fits perfectly with his depiction of the sun. His elaboration of the story includes three sisters and their woolen coats. His layout has the reader turn the book 90 degrees to see a tall picture of the sun looking down admiringly on the girls. Then the reader has to turn the book 180 degrees to behold the angry wind's displeasure with them. Stead's further elaborations are whistful. The girls bid farewell to birds fleeing the wind. Later, when sunshine returns, old women leave home to visit grandchildren, and old men pen overdue letters. Stead gets the central turn of the story just right when he has the sun say to the angry wind "I can easily pull the coats from the sisters' backs." Of course, the visual presentations of sun and wind are sharply contrasted. Stead writes "I realized the art should instead be like the Sun, gentle, warm, and never saying more than is necessary." Amen! In a move unusual for books today, the dust-jacket has different art than the book's covers. Unpaginated. 9¼" square.
- Identifier
- en_US 13489 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Neal Porter Books: Holiday House Publishing
- Subject
- One story: WS See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection