Marine alphabet (& a free printable poster)

Today Foggy & Cloud teach you the International Marine Alphabet (also known as flag semaphore). You can learn more about semaphore from Arthur Ransome's Winter Holiday or read this excellent student project by Susan Laflin.

You may download and print this mini-poster to help you with your messages. This is taken from the inside dust-jacket of Foggy.

(I made an extra colourway for fun, so you can download the blue one here and the yellow poster here). As usual, all rights from the Windy series reserved © Judith and Robin. Happy signaling.

Cloud on TV

Finally the long-awaited interview with Cloud (the co-star of our new book "Foggy") is on TV! You can watch it between kids programming on Knowledge Network, or find it at http://knowledge.ca/program/cartographies-shorts. The interview is one of a number of shorts from cArtographies: a documentary directed by Brian Johnson, produced by Leah Mallen (Twofold Films), and commissioned by Knowledge Network.

Foggy's Figgy Muesli

Now that we've revealed the answer to "what is Foggy's favourite thing to eat for breakfast?", we thought we would share his breakfast recipe with you. Cloud also contributed his recipe for Cloudy Muesli.

The recipe is uploaded as a PDF. Please let us know if you have any trouble downloading it.

Thanks again to Chef Heidi for her help in editing Cloud and Foggy's recipes.

Foggy giveaway

To celebrate the launch of Foggy at Collage Collage this Saturday, we are giving away signed copies to three people. We will be announcing the winners on March 29th.

To win a copy, please tell us: What do you think Foggy's favourite thing to eat for breakfast? Email your answers to windyandfriends@gmail.com.

Special note: For those of you who haven't read the book yet, Foggy is the dog and the red- headed boy is Cloud.

Extra special note: The answer is not marshmallows, although he does love to eat marshmallows for dinner!

Cloud in the spotlight

Look out for a terrific and heartfelt interview with Cloud (the co-star of our new book "Foggy") in TwoFold Film's upcoming 1 hour documentary 'cArtographies'. Directed by Brian Johnson and produced by Leah Mallin for the Knowledge Network, Cloud gives an amazing performance. We're not sure of the release date yet, but look for it on the Knowledge Network very soon or at www.twofold.ca.