Mouse and Minka experience the delights of nature on a windy autumn day. On board pages.

A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village.

"Cassi watches a little swift dive and swoop in the still air...Then a small breeze stirs the leaves in the trees, and as the wind grows bolder, a whiff of danger sends small creatures running for cover. Across the ocean, the wind awakes with a fury, whipping the waves and cresting each one with wild white horses. And further on, around the still eye of a hurricane, clouds are carved into a great spiral"--