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Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson''s Imagination

English

By (author): Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrated by: Edwin Fotheringham

Take a journey through the creative process that led folk artist Vollis Simpson to create his wonderful and whimsical wind-powered whirligigs and more in this STEAM/STEM picture book.

Vollis Simpson was a man with a curious mindalways eager to know how things worked and how to fix them. Growing up on a farm in North Carolina, he loved to tinker with machines. And when he served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, Vollis kept right on tinkering. His ingenuity allowed him to build things no one would have thought to create from scrapsa washing machine out of airplane parts and a motorcycle out of a bike. 

After the war, his passion for metal creations picked up speedturning into a whirlwind of windmills as far as the eye could see. Luckily, Volliss fanciful and colorful windmills have been preserved at a park in Wilson, NC, where visitors can behold his magnificent and towering creations forever whizzing in the air. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 461g
  • Dimensions: 240 x 286mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Astra Publishing House
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781662680410

About Carole Boston Weatherford

New York Times bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherfords 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre for which she was also awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square Fannie Lou Hamer and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches composition and children's literature at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.Edwin Fotheringham is the award-winning illustrator of many picture book biographies including Full of Beans Blue Grass Boy and Dazzlin Dolly. His work has received the Parents' Choice Gold Award been named an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book and more. He is also the illustrator of the Tony Baloney series by Pam Muñoz Ryan.

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