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Karas gives character to the wind that brings its sweeping ways to a tidy boy's tidy town. Unlike the townsfolk who resent the wind's intrusion, Bernard awakens to a world beyond tidiness and is energized as well as disheveled by the wind, whose breath contains the past of Viking ships, dinosaurs, and "long-ago kings and queens." The wind, rendered in erratic swirls, blows across the pages in this vivid, blustery book.