{"id":6888,"date":"2012-01-30T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2012-01-30T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T07:30:57","slug":"childrens-books-denver-post-review-of-the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind-young-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/childrens-books-denver-post-review-of-the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind-young-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Books: Denver Post review of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><strong>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"articleBody\">\n<p>by William Kamkwamba and Bryan\u00a0Mealer, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon ($16.99)<em>\u00a0[note: I change the cover to the kid&#8217;s version, they had the adult version]<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6890\" title=\"wind\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>Farmers in Malawi, as in so many African countries, are desperate for water. Often, people hike for several hours to a common well, where they fill pots and bring them back home to dole out carefully, plant by plant. When a drought ravaged William Kamkwamba&#8217;s family farm, his father reduced their meals to one a day and told William, then 14, that he could no longer afford to send him to school.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>William, unhappy about this, remembered pictures of a windmill in a library that Americans established near his village. He scavenged trash \u2014 a broken bicycle, a tractor fan, a shock absorber \u2014 and created a wobbly but working windmill. His prototype eventually led to a windmill and solar pumps that irrigated his mother&#8217;s garden and his father&#8217;s fields. This picture book simplifies the best-selling nonfiction book that the same authors published three years ago. Ages 6 and up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Claire Martin: 303-954-1477 or<a href=\"mailto:cmartin@denverpost.com\">cmartin@denverpost.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/search\/ci_19778516#ixzz1kswEBZJK\">Children&#8217;s Books: Scientists explore the gentle side of polar bears, and more &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/search\/ci_19778516#ixzz1kswEBZJK\">http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/search\/ci_19778516#ixzz1kswEBZJK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan\u00a0Mealer, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon ($16.99)\u00a0[note: I change the cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[785,1482],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-books","tag-william-kamkwamba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}