Long, long ago, the ancient people of the forest gathered around warm fires and told the tale of a time long past, when the land known as 'Michigane' was covered with ice and snow. For thousands of years the cruel North Wind ruled the land North of Up North, chasing away the gentle, benevolent winds from the East, West and South. Winter stayed the whole year round, so nothing could live in Michigane. Not until an old warrior and a young boy traveled...

Mad at the wind for blowing everything away, Jack tries a succession of ways to stop it.

On a very, very windy day Elmer, the patchwork elephant, assures all the other animals and birds that nothing could ever blow him away.

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

Colorful and oddly shaped scraps of paper blow in the wind. One by one, they take shape, transforming into animals--each one with its own story to tell. But the wind has the final say when it blows them all away.

When a big wind blows her annoying little brother away, Flora decides to save him despite the many tempting offers she gets for him from, among others, a cloud, an eagle, the man in the moon, and the wind itself.

"Noah knows where the wind comes from--but where does the wind go?"--Page [4] cover.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray wind, from a kiss of air to a roiling hurricane, in thirteen verses that represent the categories of the Beaufort wind force scale. Includes facts about the Beaufort scale and glossary.