Tuesday: A Caldecott Award Winner

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Why are these things happening? It’s anybody’s guess… But when daylight comes, the magic stops. All that remains are a few empty lily pads and some very puzzled humans. What might happen next Tuesday, though – could proverbial pigs fly? Spread from Tuesday by David Wiesner NOTE: If a weekly topic is listed as a “freebie”, you are invited to come up with your own topic. Sometimes I will give the freebie topic a theme, such as “love”, a season, or an upcoming holiday. That just means that you can come up with any topic you want that fits under that umbrella.

This book has fantastic illustrations, but an odd "story". My kids liked it a lot and I liked the surrealism. We will certainly look for more books by this author. Lovely artwork and lovely idea. I certainly enjoyed it and can only imagine what a child looking at it via nightlight will think. weeks worth of literacy planning based on the story Tuesday by David Wiesner. This planning is suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils or SEN Key Stage 3 pupils. It was original successfully delivered to a Year 6 class. Haverford College. " "Storytelling without Words," a public Student Seminar talk by David Wiesner" . Retrieved 17 November 2014.There are no words in this picture book; only gorgeous whimsical illustrations of ... flying frogs!! Hi! I just posted my very first TTT here: https://areadertowhateverend.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/top-10-tuesday-new-to-me-authors-i-read-in-2018/ Gently illuminated watercolors add luster to this playful tale of two brothers who find that the excitement of a storm is surpassed only by the imaginary adventures it inspires. Ages 5-8. Continue reading »

September 5: Books That Defied My Expectations ( books you thought you would didn’t like that you loved, books you thought you’d love but didn’t, books that were not the genres they seemed to be, or in any other way subverted your expectations!) (Submitted by Sia @ everybookadoorway.com) Tuesday is a wordless picture book that vividly depicts strange events that happened at various times of the day on Tuesday.

Caldecott Medalist Wiesner (Tuesday) again takes to the air, with watercolors that render words superfluous. Here, a boy on a class trip to the Empire State Building discovers that the landmark, Continue reading » The Thursday Murder Club is the debut novel by Pointless and House of Games presenter Richard Osman, and is the first installment in his "Thursday Murder Club" series. It was published on 3 September 2020 by Viking Press, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. A boy falls asleep and experiences several wordless, surreal journeys. PW said, ``This unbroken dreamscape is artfully carried through a blending of ancient and modern motifs; the book is an Continue reading »

I guess I’m pretty much alone here: The artwork, as usual, is wonderful, but I found this story slightly creepy. Am I missing something special that I simply didn’t get? I wonder. September 12: Favorite Character Relationships ( These can be platonic or not. Romantic relationships, parent/child, siblings, family bonds, friendships, found families, pet/human, etc.) a b c "Meet the Author: Richard Osman on debut novel The Thursday Murder Club". The Sunday Post. 19 September 2020. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 15 December 2020. Tuesday won the Caldecott Medal in 1992 and in his acceptance speech Wiesner emphasised the open-endedness of visual storytelling. He said, ‘A wordless book offers a different kind of an experience from one with text, for both the author and the reader. There is no author’s voice telling the story. Each viewer reads the book in his or her own way. The reader is an integral part of the storytelling process. As a result, there are as many versions of what happened that Tuesday night as there are readers.’August 29: Water ( This can be covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc.)

The nearly wordless Caldecott-winning book follows a squadron of frogs as they fly through the night on lilypads; PW called the visuals ""stunning: slightly surrealistic, imbued with mood and Continue reading » My Top Ten Tuesday is Bookish Confessions @ https://thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com/2019/07/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-confessions.html Hardyment, Christina (2 October 2020). "The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman audiobook review — a feelgood crime caper that reflects society as it is". The Times. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020 . Retrieved 15 December 2020. Each week has 4 lessons planned and includes all resources. End of unit outcome would be the children writing a fictional story. Wiesner creates a wonderful dream sequence in a wordless exploration that makes the picture book format seem limitless. Gray-and-green gingham squares of a sleeping boy's coverlet flow into the Continue reading »This is part of my 365 Kids Books challenge. For an explanation see my review for 101 Amazing Facts about Australia You can see all the books on their own shelf. Thanks to the marvelous people @chpublib and @ocplibraries who are keeping me supplied with all the Wiesner books.