The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book EditionWhen fourteen year old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who harnessed the wind. Lyrically told and gloriously illustrated, this

Art must bring the world closer together

kids can display it in their bedrooms

comfort us in calamity and loss

and back over the mountains so that he can defend his country from an angry god

Publisher: DK Children (February 5

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