Windmills Activity Book

By: JAMES E. OWENS

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Paperback | 28 April 2010

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56 Pages

Age
8 - 12

Grade
3 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
27.9 x 21.6

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This activity book provides hours of fun and education with 48 drawings of windmills from around the world to color. The mills were built in the 1700s and 1800s. Many have been restored for visitors today. Learn a little history for each mill, from New England, the American Midwest, West Coast, Texas, Maryland, and Virginia, and across the Atlantic to mills in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, England, Portugal, and Greece. Together with your children, learn curious facts, including the tallest windmill in the United States, windmills with eight arms, and that sails hung on the arms catch the wind. An elderly New England miller once had to be rescued while attaching sails because he forgot to set the brake and the arms started turning while he was on them. AUTHOR: James E. Owens has been the miller at Eastham?s ancient windmill in Cape Code, Massachusetts, for many years. He is also an artist who has visited most of the windmills illustrated. SELLING POINTS: -Learn about windmills around the world while colouring -Windmill imagery created by the operator of an antique mill -Have fun and gain information about each mill ILLUSTRATIONS 51 b/w drawings *

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