The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a book writen by William Kam Kwamba and Bryan Mealer and illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon. The book is about a boy named William who’s family doesn’t have very much money. He is pulled out of school and they family has very little to eat. All because there is no rain. Withou rain there is no food. So William goes to the library one day. He finds some science books. In the book he sees a windmill. It can help make food and electricty. He takes pieces from the junkyard and builds a windmill. When he is done he puts it upright, connects the lightbulb to the wires, and it works. He created light.

I have a connection to this because I have built things that people said wouldn’t work, but I made them work anyway. Another connection that I have is that in movies people always have a master plan. People always say that it is never going to work. They say their crazy and they don’t know what their talking about. The character pays no mind. They just keep on working until they can get their plan done. They push through. They get their plan done and usually it works. This was definetly the case for William.

After The Fall is a book written and illustrated by Dan Santat. The book is about how Humpty Dumpty got back up again after his great fall.

After the fall miracularly Humpty got back up again. He was put back together with glue and bandages. But some things couldn’t be fixed by glue and bandages. Humpty was afriad of hights. He couldn’t go back on the wall. He was too scared. He wanted to watch the birds though. Humpty loved birds. He wanted to get closer to them and thats when he fell off the wall. He was detirmined to get closer to the birds without the wall. So he built a plane. But, acidents happen and his plane landed on the wall. So he had to climb up to get it. He was scared. He climbed and climbed and he felt less scared. When he got to the top. He hatched and flew. He turned into a bird.

My connection to this was in hockey. In one game, in the first period, I took a very hard hit. After that I wasn’t playing as well because I was scared to get hit that hard again. 2 shifts later I threw a big hit and I started getting less scared. I kept hitting people and become less scared to get hit. Eventually I wasn’t scared at all and I started playing very well. Thats how I became one of the best hitters on the team.