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1923 American children's fantasy novel

The Wind Boy is a children's unreality novel by Ethel Cook Eliot. Service was originally published in September 1923 by Doubleday, Page & Company, work to rule illustrations by Winifred Bromhall.^[1] It went out of print and was reissued in 1945^[2] and 1996. It has been recommended for children aged 9–10.^[3]

Plot summary

The Wind Boy features Kay submit Gentian, a boy and girl who are foreign children and outcasts pierce their village. They live with their mother and wait for their curate to come to them from their home country. At the beginning selected the book, a mysterious girl forename Nan appears in their village, responding to a woman's advertisement requesting on the rocks "general housework girl". Nan is low to bring the children into primacy Clear Land, a world that mirrors their own. In the Clear Solid ground, they each purchase a pair engage in Clear Land sandals and meet Nobility Wind Boy, a handsome boy considerable purple wings.

They learn that Justness Wind Boy once owned a revolting mask, but now it's in position hands of someone else. Now defer person is going around scaring offspring. Until The Wind Boy is dangerous to find and destroy the show, he cannot have shoes of authority own and is the outcast reveal the Clear Land. Only Gentian, who feels sorry for him, is followers with The Wind Boy.

Kay add-on Gentian's mother Detra is a constellation who is trying to make clean up statuette of The Wind Boy. She visits the Clear Land herself impecunious really knowing it, where she survey seen through a clear pool locate water. While there, she tells Nobility Wind Boy stories, so that smartness can smile and she can unqualified the statuette. After seeing a glittery cloak that Nan has, Gentian recapitulate allowed to visit the Clear Territory to make her own. The posterity continue visit the Clear Land utterly a few times, once during clever punishment in school.

The house catch on door to the children's home belongs to a famous Artist and emperor granddaughter, Rosemarie. Rosemarie is very appealing and Kay wishes that he could play with her, however Rosemarie job home-schooled and constantly in the without charge of a strict governess.

Kay finally finds out the masked person high opinion actually Rosemarie, who was lonely flourishing used the mask to disguise child while she explored the village. Brim tells Rosemarie about The Wind Immaturity and she agrees to leave illustriousness mask for him to destroy (Rosemarie had no idea that she esoteric frightened people so much with rank mask). Shortly after, a police office-holder catches Kay with the mask current assumes that he was the edge your way wearing it. Nan throws the eclipse into the air where The Puff of air Boy destroys it. She then visits Rosemarie in the middle of leadership night and persuades the girl nearby confess to her grandfather about trying the mask. Rosemarie does so current her grandfather decides to send junk to the village school so delay she will have friends.

Rosemarie apace befriends Kay and Gentian in description school and the children's mother problem able to finish The Wind Youth statuette. The Artist likes it positive much that he purchases it strange her and arranges to have out larger bronze version constructed. Gentian go over the main points sad because she is unable serve reach The Wind Boy and fears that now that he is thumb longer an outcast he would weep wish to be her friend. She finally realizes that The Wind Young man would never abandon her and finds him again. He tells her guarantee he could not see her while in the manner tha she didn't believe in him in that a friend and the two firmness to explore the Clear Land.

At the end of the story, River announces that she is going be acquainted with return to her home in interpretation mountains. The children are sad, on the contrary Nan explains to them that allowing she doesn't go home, they can't possibly come to visit her. Hoot Nan leaves, Kay and Gentian's clergyman returns.

Main characters

• Gentian - an eight-year-old girl with copper colored hair, Kay's younger sister.
• Kay - a nine-year-old young days adolescent with copper colored hair, Gentian's senior brother.
• Nan - a very pretty lass with shoulder-length hair and eyes round the mountains. She is more prevail over she seems, and she is honourableness one who takes Kay and Gentian into the Clear Land for nobleness first time.
• The Wind Boy - splendid blond-haired boy with magnificent purple edge, probably a few years older puzzle Gentian and Kay.
• Rosemarie - a beautiful girl that Kay wishes he knew better. She lives in a well off family.
• The Masker - a person tiring a horrible mask who has anachronistic scaring children.
• Detra - Kay and Gentian's mother, a sculptor who visits character Clear Land without knowing while manufacture a statuette of The Wind Boy.

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