Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Listen to the Wind
Book Review: Great addition to kid reading list
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this to my daughter's kindergarten class and thought it was a great book for them. We looked up Baltistan (sp?) on the globe and imagined what it would be like to go to school outside and draw letters and numbers in the dirt with sticks. Plus the collage illustrations are wonderful.Book Review: Great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is beautifully illustrated and great for children. It does a wonderful job telling the story of Three Cups of Tea, Mortenson's original book, in a way children can understand.
Book Review: Great for Kids
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved Greg's Three Cups of Tea for adults. This books tells the story but for children. It is not dumbed down. I love the pictures.Book Review: I didn't like it that much
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a Book Review written by one of my wonderful students as a class assignment. Her name is Naeisha and this is what she wrote:
I read "Listen to the Wind". This book was about all the kids that are in school in india they teach about Indian school. They make aLot of food and aLot of stuff.
I read "Listen to the Wind" and I did not like it very much. The book is about students learning about India. They learn about the things that they make, and the food they eat in India. I did not like how the student is eat so much junk food or how cold their town is. It sound's like their townand lives might be dangerous.
this part taht i like about this book is the families thatgrow and gather and the food that people eat.I like the end of the story, because it has aLot of good food from India.
But, I really wish that the story were more fun. Maybe they could have talked more about the food. A party would have been awesome. So, if you're looking for a fun book, then this one is not for you.
Book Review: Inspirational story, gorgeous artwork
Summary: 5 Stars
The subhead is "The story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea," and so it is. This is a child's picture book that tells the inspirational true story of Greg Mortenson and his tireless efforts to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson's book about the experience, Three Cups of Tea, is a worldwide bestseller. Since the topic is about kids, this picture book and the newly published Three Cups of Tea: The Young Reader's Edition, should resonate with children.
In 1993, Mortenson got lost in the mountains of Pakistan after turning back from a failed attempt at climbing K2. He stumbled into Korphe, a poor village, where the townspeople nursed him back to health. As he was recuperating, Mortenson was shocked to learn the village's children had no school, with lessons taught outside just three days a week. Kids learned to write using sticks in the dirt. To repay the village's kindness, the Montana native promised to return, and help build a school.
Mortenson did come back to Korphe, and has indeed helped build not just one but fifty-five schools -- many for girls -- in the impoverished region.
The idea of "three cups of tea" comes from the village chief, Haji Ali. "With the first cup of tea you are a stranger, with the second you become a friend, and with the third, you join our family."
Even if I wasn't drawn in by the story, I'd be tempted to buy Listen to the Wind just for the artwork. Artist Susan L. Roth used a variety of materials to create the colorful collages on each page. An artist's note in the back explains that Roth was inspired by actual artifacts from the region, in which nothing ever goes to waste. A woman's hat was "like a sculpture of cloth fragments, bright colored yarn and metal accents," including an actual computer chip.
Also in the back are photo-filled scrapbook pages, showing the completed school and Korphe villagers.
A story like this should help kids feel closer to children in other parts of the world, as if they had actually shared that third cup of tea.