This book is about Bily and Zluty, hatched from the same egg, but quite different from each other. Zluty is the adventurer and wanderer, while timid Bily tends to the house and garden. The appearance of the red wind threatens to change their happy little life. Bily and Zluty are quite lovable characters (looking much like a miniature Max from "Where the Wild Things Are). The pictures are also essential to the storyline, giving the reader a feeling that we knew something the characters didn't. I imagined a bigger story building about their different lifestyles that never really eventuated, maybe that is in the next book. I usually read a series only when it is complete, so that I don't have to wait an entire year to reach a resolution for the characters. This book felt like a big chapter rather than a stand alone book to me, just as their journey begins, the book is done. Then again maybe that's the idea because now I am waiting for the next two books to find out what happens. This was my first time to read an Isobelle Carmody book, and I will definitely be reading another, but this time I will choose one from a series she has already finished. ( )

I love this book so many amazing illustrations and words just jam packed with an amazing story line😃

Bily and Zluty live a quiet and happy life of routine, they spend the warmer months foraging, collecting and growing, baking, making and bartering all that they will need to sustain them for the cold winter months. While Bily, white furred and timid, completed the important tasks about their cottage, Zluty, yellow furred and adventurous, would setoff on long treks to gather what suppliers they need from the surrounding lands.

When one morning these two brothers woke to discover a redness in the sky nether could say for sure what that redness was. Weather a cloud, a mist or something else the only thing Bily and Zluty knew for curtain was that they had never seen it before and what ever it was it did belong. However with no answers Bily and Zluty did the only thing they could, they ignored the redness and went about with their tasks. However the red wind would not be ignored.

The Red Wind is a sweet and tender story of brotherly love, duty, kindness and courage. In the face of danger, destruction and the threat of death these two brothers demonstrate just how important all life is, whether that of a small bee or a large monster. Bily and Zluty are able to show how helping others in need is important, and that change no matter how scary or devastating is not the end of the world but can be the beginning of a new adventure. ( )