In the years that followed, he went on to receive two more Caldecotts, and Tuesday went on to sell half a million copies in the United States and to be published in a dozen foreign countries. She read it to herself as I was driving and giggled her way through the story. David Wiesner received the 1991 Caldecott Medal for Tuesday. The real reason I love it, though, is my 6 and a half year old's reaction to it. The twist at the end is that these are not her vegetables, somehow transformed in space, but instead are the accidental kitchen scrapings of a clumsy alien cephalopod. Lima beans loom over Levittown."), each page crazier and funnier than the last. Soon giant vegetables fall to earth ("Cucumbers circle Kalamazoo. In June 29, 1999, a girl sends vegetable seedlings into the upper atmosphere as a science project. It's about June 29, 1999 (Clarion Books, 1992), one of his older stories, which contains many of his signature touches: surreal floating items in otherwise realistic settings, clever and beautiful visuals, exquisitely rendered detail, and a delightfully whimsical story. His recent picture book, Art and Max (Clarion Books, 2010) is just as inventive and visually stunning as his three Caldecott-winning books ( Flotsam, The Three Pigs, and Tuesday), and his two Caldecott-honor books ( Sector 7 and Free Fall).īut this review is not about those books. David Wiesner is one of those author/illustrators who, after you discover one of his books, will cause you to run to the nearest library to check out everything he's ever done.
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