SuitabookWild is the Wind
Grahame Baker-Smith
- Reading
- Read the words aloud slowly, then revisit selected spreads for visual details. Trace the journey on a map if useful, and distinguish what the text explains from what the artwork suggests.
- Themes
- Migration and connection: A healed swift joins a flock travelling from southern Africa to China, where the birds nest and later return. The journey is presented as meaningful and joyful, connecting people, birds, seasons and distant landscapes.
- Wind and the natural world: The wind accompanies the birds and is linked with changing landforms, waves, scents, seed dispersal, power generation and extremes. The book appears to combine poetic personification or imagery with information about wind’s effects.
- Worth knowing
- Pause over the swift’s dependence on seasonal movement and the wind’s changing effects. The illustrations include dramatic landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes, which may prompt close observation.