Everyone loves Wendy and Wendy loves everyone…except for the wind!

Wendy thinks that the wind is cold, and mean, and doesn’t know how to play. The sandbox loves her. The bath loves her. Even the baby breeze loves her! Wendy just can’t understand why the wind won’t love her. But when her dad gives her a kite as a present, Wendy learns that sometimes, we have to learn to play on someone else’s terms.

This bedtime story for three- to seven-year-olds will delight readers with its beautiful pictures and sweet story. It teaches children how to handle difficulty that’s thrown in their path—and there will be a lot of difficulty in most of our lives! Life isn’t always gentle and kind, but it’s up to us to find happiness in every situation.

An avid reader and life-long storyteller, Marion (Church) Stephenson was born in Avonlea, Saskatchewan, in 1928. She graduated from Radville High School in 1947, married in 1948, and eventually became a happy mother of four. Today she is a delighted grandmother of five and gleeful great grandmother of eight. A love of reading inspired Stephenson to write throughout her young life; the activity was a panacea to the loneliness of changing schools many times and having to make new friends with every new place. She wrote her first book to entertain her grandchildren and remind them that in life, the wind is an everyday occurrence.

Stephenson lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and keeps busy reading, knitting, writing, and enjoying life.