Mirandy has her heart set on winning the junior cakewalk, and she has decided the only partner worth having is Brother Wind himself. Everyone on Ridgetop offers advice on how to catch him, none of it works, and her friend Ezel laughs at every failed attempt. Patricia McKissack set the story in the rural South of her grandparents' generation and closed it with an author's note on the cakewalk, a dance rooted in African American tradition. Jerry Pinkney's watercolors won both a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration.

• 32 pages
• 9" x 11"
• Ages 3 to 7