This is the Wind is a children's book by Liz Rosenberg, with art by Renée Reichert, published in 2008. It is available at the Internet Archive.
Here is how the story starts: This is the wind that blew on the farm on the night you were born; as you can see, a woman is rocking her baby.
It then moves into rhyming couplets:
This is the mouse
that crawled in the house
to stay nice and warm
from the wind that blew on the farm
on the night you were born.
The story then shifts to a man following the sound of the mouse (but we don't realize at first that this is a flashback to that night); the wife then wants to eat cake with him, then the man and the wife go down an icy road to the white place (a hospital), where the baby is born.
It's honestly a bit random, with some rather surreal pictures; the cake is a recurring motif!
I like circular stories, but this one is a bit hard to follow; I wonder what a young reader would make of it. It was not my favorite story; it is a nice idea for an experiment, but I'm not sure it succeeded.
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