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The Boy Who Tried to Catch the Wind

Name: The Boy Who Tried to Catch the Wind
Author: Hector Ouilhet Olmos
ISBN: 979-8-9979686-0-1

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

Written and illustrated by Hector Ouilhet Olmos
Spanish-language version by the author

The blue clothbound book on a grey surface, with the handwritten title and wind motif in gold on its cover and spine — Cover & spine — 1 / 6

A clothbound hardcover, wrapped in textured blue Allure cloth. The handwritten title is stamped in matte gold foil on the cover and spine, with an old-gold ribbon to keep your place.

Inside, 64 pages pair the story and hand-drawn illustrations on smooth, natural-toned paper, printed in full colour. Printed endpapers and an extended bibliography complete an edition made to keep, revisit, or give.

In English.

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INSIDE THE STORY

Who are you,
beyond your card?

At school, the boy gets a card. Every word is true, but something is missing. He brings his question to a machine that knows everything anyone has written down.

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Once there was a boy who tried to catch the wind. Every morning, before school, the boy raced up the little hill to try to catch the wind. He could feel it in his hair and on his face. But his hands always closed on nothing. He didn’t mind. The game began every day.

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THE PRINTED EDITION

A story you can hold.

Blue Allure cloth, matte gold foil on the cover and spine, printed endpapers, and an old-gold ribbon bookmark. Inside, the story and its hand-drawn illustrations are printed in full colour on natural-toned paper.

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