weather vanes

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weather vanes

All about wind & clouds

2005
A lively explanation of everyday weather forms. Learn about various types of clouds and how the wind affects them. A meteorologist demonstrates how wind speed is measured with an anemometer. Also, build your own weather vane.

El gallo mand?n

2007
The barnyard hens laugh when the bossy rooster meets his match in the weather vane rooster.

Mediopollito

1997
Presents a traditional Spanish folktale written in both English and Spanish about how the rooster on the weather vane came to be.

The rooster and the weather vane

1988
A rooster who wakes everyone up and a weather vane who tells how the wind blows exchange jobs to prove which is more important.

Mediopollito

1995
A Mexican folk tale which explains why the weather vane has a little rooster on one end that spins around to let us know which way the wind is blowing.

The bossy rooster

2003
The barnyard hens laugh when the bossy rooster meets his match in the weather vane rooster.

Making folk toys & weather vanes

1984
Provides patterns and instructions for building rocking horses, wheel toys, articulated toys, and weather vanes in a variety of animal shapes.

At Taylor's place

1990
Tory helps her friend Taylor with projects including a weathervane for Miss Perry, topped with a carved figure of her dog Marvin.

Bonnie Bess, the weathervane horse

1970
When the farm is abandoned, Bonnie Bess's usefulness as a weathervane horse is almost ended.
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