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A review by mat_tobin
The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
4.0
A wonderful, cumulative tale which builds on many devices that Hutchins uses in [b:Rosie's Walk|420403|Rosie's Walk|Pat Hutchins|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1358594679s/420403.jpg|2889655]. Each page is a double-page spread with the characters beginning on the verso (left) and gradually, as the tension builds towards the recto (right).
Hutchins is an absolute master of the picturebook and I love how there is a constant hint at what is to come in each double-page spread. Her illustrations are bright and engaging with the white sky allowing us to focus on the landscape and the windswept trees and people. There is a lovely rhyming couplet sequence throughout and the sentences which read far more like a poem that some of her other work - again this works so well for the swirling, whirling motion of the wind.
Hutchins is an absolute master of the picturebook and I love how there is a constant hint at what is to come in each double-page spread. Her illustrations are bright and engaging with the white sky allowing us to focus on the landscape and the windswept trees and people. There is a lovely rhyming couplet sequence throughout and the sentences which read far more like a poem that some of her other work - again this works so well for the swirling, whirling motion of the wind.