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Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpsons Imagination Audiobook, by Carole Boston Weatherford Play Audiobook Sample

Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson's Imagination Audiobook

Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpsons Imagination Audiobook, by Carole Boston Weatherford Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 12, 2024
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Read By: Matt Godfrey Publisher: Recorded Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.13 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 12, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798894861623

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

4

Longest Chapter Length:

06:07 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

21 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

02:30 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

20

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Publisher Description

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.

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About Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is the author of many children books, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, which was a Caldecott Honor book, and Becoming Billie Holiday, a 2009 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book.

About Matt Godfrey

James Fouhey is an actor and narrator living in New York City. He received classical training at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He has recorded more than forty audiobooks across a variety of genres, including science fiction, romance, young adult fiction, and children’s fiction.