# Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson's Imagination - Hardcover

by **Carole Boston Weatherford** (Author), **Edwin Fotheringham** (Illustrator)

**Take a journey through the creative process that led folk artist Vollis Simpson to create his wonderful and whimsical wind-powered whirligigs and more in this STEAM/STEM picture book.**

Vollis Simpson was a man with a curious mind--always eager to know how things worked and how to fix them. Growing up on a farm in North Carolina, he loved to tinker with machines. And when he served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, Vollis kept right on tinkering. His ingenuity allowed him to build things no one would have thought to create from scraps--a washing machine out of airplane parts and a motorcycle out of a bike.

After the war, his passion for metal creations picked up speed--turning into a whirlwind of windmills as far as the eye could see. Luckily, Vollis's fanciful and colorful windmills have been preserved at a park in Wilson, NC, where visitors can behold his magnificent and towering creations forever whizzing in the air.

### Author Biography

_New York Times_ bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherford's 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book _Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre_, for which she was also awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner _Box_; and the Caldecott Honor winners _Freedom in Congo Square_, _Fannie Lou Hamer_, and _Moses_. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for _Becoming Billie Holiday_. Weatherford teaches composition and children's literature at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.

Edwin Fotheringham is the award-winning illustrator of many picture book biographies, including _Full of Beans_, _Blue Grass Boy_, and _Dazzlin' Dolly_. His work has received the Parents' Choice Gold Award, been named an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book, and more. He is also the illustrator of the Tony Baloney series by Pam Muñoz Ryan.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 11.2 x 9.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 12, 2024

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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