SCALE OF US — PRESS COPY

TITLE
The Boy Who Tried to Catch the Wind

ONE LINE
A story about a boy, a machine, and the part of us no answer can hold.

SHORT DESCRIPTION
When a school card describes a boy correctly but incompletely, he brings his question to a machine that knows everything anyone has written down. His search takes him from descriptions to lived experience—and back to the wind he has always tried to catch.

LONG DESCRIPTION
The Boy Who Tried to Catch the Wind is an illustrated philosophical fable for children and adults that explores what it means to be human in the age of AI. A boy receives a card at school. Every word on it is true, but he knows something is missing. He asks a machine that can answer any question, then follows its instructions through a stonecutter, a potter, a waiting girl, a hall of mirrors, and a climb up a mountain. The story can be read as a child’s journey and as an invitation to ask what can be described, what can be known, and what must be lived.

The story is available as free English and Spanish online readings with optional synchronized synthetic narration and animated hand-drawn illustrations. A small, limited batch of signed English clothbound copies is forthcoming after delivery, inspection, and public release are confirmed.

CREATOR BIOGRAPHY
Hector Ouilhet Olmos is a designer and engineer who writes and illustrates stories about what makes us human in an age of AI. He created Scale of Us to bring ideas from philosophy, technology, and lived experience into books that children and adults can read together. The Boy Who Tried to Catch the Wind is his first book.

CREATOR CREDIT
Written, illustrated, and designed by Hector Ouilhet Olmos.
Spanish-language version by the author.

SUGGESTED PHOTOGRAPH CAPTIONS
photo-01.webp — Cover and spine of The Boy Who Tried to Catch the Wind, with blue cloth and gold title lettering.
photo-02.webp — The hand-drawn wind motif on a cream page.
photo-03.webp — Handwritten title page beside patterned blue endpapers.
photo-04.webp — The boy and the wind on an illustrated page.
photo-05.webp — Story text and hand-drawn illustrations on page 37.
photo-06.webp — Blue cloth binding and blue endpapers with gold wind motifs.

IMAGE PROVENANCE AND CREDIT
These are the six photographs currently used on the Scale of Us homepage, supplied by Hector Ouilhet Olmos. Separate photographer attribution is not recorded; do not infer a photography copyright credit. Book text and illustrations © 2026 Hector Ouilhet Olmos / Scale of Us. Supplied for editorial coverage of the book only; retain the artwork credit and do not alter the artwork beyond ordinary cropping for layout. See image-manifest.json for exact source paths, dimensions and checksums.