Janice M. Del Negro

The story revolves around a headstrong girl named Willa, who lives on a farm with her sister, after the Wind plays a mean trick on her and blows away all of her cornmeal, Willa storms up to his house in the mountains and demands to get her cornmeal back, and instead is given a magical handkerchief that produces food. On her way back to her home the handkerchief gets stolen by a greedy inn owner, who replaces the handkerchief with an ordinary one. When Willa realizes that the handkerchief does not work, she storms back to the top of the mountain to talk to the wind. This process happens two more times before Willa realizes that the inn keeper is the one that is taking all of her magical gifts. By using the power of the wind, Willa is able to get her gifts back and she, her sister, and the wind all get along happily ever after.
Willa’s character remains that of one who is strong headed and doesn’t give up, she knows what she wants and she won’t let anyone take that from her, including the wind himself. The author teaches the reader that taking things from others is wrong, that you need to work for what you want, and that sometimes you need to be assertive in order to get what you deserve.… (meer)