When Flora and her pesky little brother, Crispin, are whisked away by a swirling and swooping wind, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to give her brother away. With tempting offers from a dragonfly, the man in the moon, and even the wind itself, she will find it difficult to choose. But Flora would do anything to get rid of Crispin, wouldn’t she

 

Jeanne Birdsall’s utterly charming picture book debut takes flight in Matt Phelan’s twisting, twirling watercolors, brimming with wit and whimsy.