Ann-Madeleine Gelotte - Swedish Writer and Illustrator

This book "Her kommer vinden" (Here Comes the Wind) was read so much by me, my sister - and now my daughter - that it's beginning to look like it has been in the washer a couple of times. It was written and illustrated by the Swedish illustrator and writer Ann-Madeleine Gelotte in 1973 and translated into Danish the same year.

The story is about the wind who is bored and one day steals a hat from a little girl. At first the little girl is really sad, because she had taken her mother's hat without asking, and now the wind has taken it. But then she decides to get it back and eventually finds it in a tree where the wind has put all of her trophies. The wind loves the hat so much that the little girl lets the wind have it, and in return she gets all the trophies. Her mother doesn't mind about the old hat, and she and her daughter have lots of fun playing dress up with all the things the girl got from the wind.