The Big Lift
How a Wind Farm Gets Built
A construction coloring and activity book for kids ages 4-10, written by a wind technician.
Coming January 29, 2027
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112 pages of cranes, trucks and wind turbines for builders ages 4-10.
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What's inside
The Big Lift follows the real order a wind farm gets built, from measuring the wind to the first spin. Every page is a picture to color, a puzzle to solve or a fact to share.
The real build, in order
24 story pages follow one turbine from the first wind measurement to the day it spins.
13 activity pages
A blade truck maze, a word search, connect the dots, spot the differences and how to draw Breezy.
Wind around the world
13 scenes, from turbines out at sea to turbines under the northern lights.
Find Breezy on every page
The Site Dog hides somewhere in every picture. Can you spot him?
- Ages 4-10
- 112 pages
- 8.5 x 11 in
- One picture per sheet
Free from the job site
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Theo, his Aunt Rosie, and Breezy the Site Dog. Nobody owns him, everybody feeds him.
Say helloWritten by a wind technician
The author has worked in wind energy since 2007. He started out repairing turbine blades while hanging from ropes, and today he builds wind farms for a living. Every machine in the book does its real job, in the real order.

