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| "Where does the wind go when it stops?
" "It blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else." |
 Above is just
one of the thoughtful questions a little boy asks his mother in the lyrical
When
the Wind Stops, one of Charlotte's most searching books ---
thrice-published, thrice illustrated. It is pervaded by a spiritual calmness...
the deep reassurance that "Nothing ends. It only begins in another place or
in a different way." |
 Pictured to the left is the most recent version of
When the Wind Stops,
published by HarperCollins in 1995 with bold, sunset colored graphic
illustrations by Stefano Vitale. They could not be more different from the '50's
style primary colored 1962 illustrations of Joe Lasker, below right, or the thoughtful
delicacy of those of Howard Knotts, 1975, paragraph below.
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 Read a review of
When the Wind Stops at
Embracing
the Child, a site which offers a collection of books designed to
"bring attention to the power of particular
picture books (whose) strong visual images have the potential to empower
children; bring an awareness of life and cultures beyond their own; encourage
them to aspire higher; put aside "labels" and grow self
esteem." Wind
certainly does all that, as the mother
respectfully and imaginatively answers the searching, almost-impossible
questions the child asks of the world around him, and his place in it. |
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