THE WINDMILL TURNING: NURSERY RHYMES, MAXIMS, AND OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF WESTERN CANADIAN MENNONITES. Friesen, Victor Carl. Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1988. 139pp, cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-88864-118-4. CIP Grades 11 and up Reviewed by Hazel Birt Volume 17 Number 1 1989 January Doctor Friesen lives and writes in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. He has a Mennonite background and has made a study of Mennonite culture in western Canada and the American midwest. Friesen's other books include The Spirit of the Huckleberry (University of Alberta Press, 1984) and The Mulberry Tree (with Anna Friesen) (Queenston House, 1985). He has published some one hundred articles and stories. Friesen provides the reader with a concise description of the Mennonites— their history and language—along with a literary analysis of their folklore. The Windmill Turning has 450 items of folklore—nursery rhymes, songs and maxims —presented in both the original language and English. The Windmill Turning would be a valuable resource book. Some of the children's songs are set to music and this reviewer envisions teachers and children using the songs and games in perhaps a multicultural presentation. People of all ages will be interested in the heritage of the one hundred thousand western Canadian Mennonites, their treks from land to land to preserve their unique life-style and their ethnic language to record their rich folklore. The book is handsomely presented in hard cover with a lovely dust Jacket depicting a windmill set in grain fields. Some of the line drawings are amateurish in quality, but all together this is a very special, interesting book. Hazel Birt, Winnipeg, Man.