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The Wind that Wanted to Rest

Beautiful illustrations accompany this tale of an old winter wind who is tired and looking for a place to rest.  Unfortunately, everywhere it tries to stop, someone shoos him along for fear of the damage he will do.  Every time he gets sent packing, his anger and frustration builds until he is quite the raging storm.  At the peak of the storm, a young girl takes pity on him and offers the wind refuge under her house.  His anger gone, the wind is able to rest until spring, when he awakes and flies away, leaving behind magical snow that never melts, keeping the kind girl and her family cool throughout the hottest summers.  An afterward shares what the author knows about the story’s origins, which may or may not be a Jewish folktale.