The Wind Boy

By Ethel Cook Eliot In a quiet cottage in a quiet village there lives a girl named Gentian and her brother, Kay. The War has taken their father away and chased them into this strange, new place, where their friends are few and their mother works in a factory. Their lives change forever when a girl with purple mountains in her eyes arrives to be their mother’s helper. Nan is not just a splendid playmate, but also a wonderful storyteller. In her stories, she introduces Kay and Gentian to the world of the Clear Land—a world different from their own, a higher world. In and between the two worlds, Gentian and Kay befriend the Wind Boy. When the Wind Boy’s idea of a harmless joke is taken up by the frightening Masker, Gentian and Kay—with Nan’s help—must solve the mystery and save the Wind Boy from disgrace. First published in 1923, The Wind Boy followed upon the success of Ethel Cook Eliot’s earlier fairy-stories The House in the Fairy Wood and The House Above the Trees, and firmly establis