A story about the extraordinary path of the wind in its many guises
across the world, as witnessed by a migrating swift
Cassi watches a little swift dive and swoop in the still air. In the
rising sun the world seems to be holding its breath. Then a small breeze
stirs the leaves in the trees, and as the wind grows bolder, a whiff of
danger sends small creatures running for cover. Across the ocean, the
wind awakes with a fury, whipping the waves and cresting each one with
wild white horses. And further on, around the still eye of a hurricane,
clouds are carved into a great spiral, howling with stormy power. All
this is witnessed by the swift as it finally comes to nest on the other
side of the world, where the great wind has abated. Follow the amazing
path of a swift in Kate Greenaway Award-winning illustrator Grahame
Baker-Smith's follow-up to The Rhythm of the Rain.