Where the Wind Blows - by Violet Duncan (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Join Southwind on an exhilarating journey across a magnificent land and see how we are all a part of something bigger!

When Starboy notices the wind carrying the sweet scent of his mother's favorite flower, he asks the Southwind where she has been. So many places, Southwind says, and happily begins to recount all the wonderous places she wafted through on her long journey north before drifting into a valley in the land of Starboy's people. By the time Southwind finishes her tale, Starboy has just enough time to pick some flowers for his mom, give thanks to Mother Earth and the wind, and set off for home with dreams of traveling to all the places the wind has blown.

Violet Duncan's vivid text and Steph Littlebird's luminous art beau­tifully capture the exuberant spirit of the wind and remind us that we are all connected.

About the Author

Violet Duncan (VioletDuncan.com) is Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation. Her debut middle grade novel, Buffalo Dreamer, was a National Book Award Finalist and an American Indian Youth Literature Award winner. She was inspired to write Where the Wind Blows by her trips every summer, driving from Arizona to her family's reservation in Alberta, Canada. In her current role as creative director at Young Warriors, Violet is dedicated to cultivating spaces for Indigenous performances and practices. She lives in Arizona.

Steph Littlebird (StephLittlebird.com) is an Indigenous artist, writer, curator, and enrolled member of Oregon's Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. She wrote and illustrated You Are the Land, and she is also the illustrator of My Powerful Hair (by Carole Lindstrom), an American Library Association Notable Book and one of Kirkus Reviews' Most Empowering Books of 2023, as well as American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Books Fierce Aunties! (by Laurel Goodluck) and The Summer of the Bone Horses (by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve). She lives in the Pacific Northwest.