Windmills Activity Book

Author: James E. Owens
Publisher: Schiffer Kids
ISBN: 9780764334559
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This activity book provides hours of fun and education with 48 drawings of windmills from around the world to color. The mills were built in the 1700s and 1800s. Many have been restored for visitors today. Learn a little history for each mill, from New England, the American Midwest, West Coast, Texas, Maryland, and Virginia, and across the Atlantic to mills in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, England, Portugal, and Greece. Together with your children, learn curious facts, including the tallest windmill in the United States, windmills with eight arms, and with sails hung on the arms to catch the wind. An elderly New England miller once had to be rescued while attaching sails because he forgot to set the brake and the arms started turning while he was on them. Middle grades-ages 8-12.

The Wind at Work

Author: Gretchen Woelfle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613741009
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Woelfle traces the history of windmills and how their design and function have changed over times. Includes more than a dozen wind-related activities such as making a wind sock and wind vane. Full color.

Energy Island

Author: Allan Drummond
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374321841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Tells how the people of Danish island of Samso decided to use wind energy to power their lives and became the "Energy Island."

The Snowy Day

Author: Anna Milbourne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780746069783
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Several children enjoy playing in the snow.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Author: William Kamkwamba
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101637420
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.

The Wind at Work

Author: Gretchen Woelfle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556523083
Category : Windmills
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An introduction to windmills and their advantages as renewable energy providers, with activities for understanding some of the principles of wind.

Tilting at Windmills

Author: Joseph Pittman
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758273851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
This lyrical debut novel celebrates the joys and tears of love lost and found, and of a life renewed--in a most unexpected place. . . At thirty-four, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. . . On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian is transfixed by the beauty of an enormous windmill. Running toward it is a lovely little girl and her alluring mother, Annie Sullivan, who owns the windmill. The two strike a chord in Brian's heart and soon he discovers the small-town charms of Linden Corners--and of Annie, whose elusive quality matches his own questions about life. And as their relationship deepens into passion, through the force of nature and the hand of fate, Brian will learn that love comes in unexpected ways. Pittman's debut novel is a feel-good fantasy. . . a nice feel for pace and place."--Publishers Weekly

Wind at Work

Author: Gretchen Woelfle
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613831604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An introduction to windmills and their advantages as renewable energy providers, with activities for understanding some of the principles of wind.

Tilting at Windmills

Author: Julian Branston
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030742250X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
In seventeenth-century Valladolid, Spain’s new capital, Miguel Cervantes is busy writing his comic masterpiece, Don Quixote, which is being issued in installments. It is quickly making him the most popular author in the country, when three potential disasters strike: Cervantes discovers that there is a real Don Quixote, just like the character he thought he’d invented; a jealous poet concocts a scheme involving one of the novel’s other characters to make Cervantes a laughingstock; and Cervantes falls in love with a beautiful, widowed, but un-available duchess. Many duels, misunderstandings, politicking, and betrayals later, Don Quixote himself comes to Cervantes’ rescue. This sparkling tale of crazed knights, thwarted love, and literary rivalry is set against the back-ground of a mighty empire suffering from a century of reckless wars and a ruling hierarchy stultified by patronage and ritual. Peopled with an engagingly idiosyncratic cast that ranges from a Machiavellian duke to a misanthropic poacher, this charming story is imbued with the spirit, verve, and humor of the great novel to which it pays playful tribute. Tilting at Windmills is a dazzling evocation of Cervantes’ life and times, and a brilliant weave of fact, fiction, and farce.

Windmills

Author: Charlotte Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An introduction to the windmill, including how it is designed to turn a breeze into energy that powers homes, schools, businesses, and more.