Eik Kahng et al. Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Yale Univ., dist.), $29.95 (125p) ISBN 978-0-300-22601-0
This exhibition catalog from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art offers splendid reproductions of paintings by Wiesner, whose wordless picture books have won three Caldecott Medals. In a candid, wide-ranging interview, Wiesner discusses the artists who...
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David Wiesner, Author Clarion Books $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-87082-2
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 mystery."" Ages 5-8. (Aug.)
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David Wiesner. Clarion, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-30902-9
Three-time Caldecott Medalist Wiesner looks at the interior anxieties of a boy playing baseball with a new crowd of kids. Assigned to the outfield, and with a fly ball heading toward him, the boy imagines himself uttering the words of the title—“I...
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David Wiesner. Clarion, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-75661-2
Mr. Wuffles, a handsome black cat with white paws and an arrogant air, couldn’t care less about the many toys purchased for his amusement. But he homes in on a metal object (imagine two doll-size colanders soldered shut), imperiling the tiny green...
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David Wiesner, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-73511-4
Leapin' lizards--er, frogs! The many fans of Wiesner's 1992 Caldecott Medal-winning Tuesday will be hoppy to learn that one of its acrobatic amphibian actors has landed in his very own book-and-toy package. The personable critter rests (courtesy of...
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David Wiesner, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-05583-7
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 patchwork fields of a landscape, with mountains in the...
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David Wiesner, Author Clarion Books $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-395-74656-1
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, enveloped by fog, is nonetheless a gateway to...
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As readers have come to expect from the inventive works of Wiesner, nothing is ever quite as it seems in his picture books. This version of the pigs' tale starts off traditionally enough—warm, inviting watercolor panels show in succession
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David Wiesner, Author Clarion Books $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-72767-6
PW's boxed review found this quirky picture book from the Caldecott Medalist ``spectacular to look at, great fun to read [and] executed with consumate skill.'' Ages 5-up. (Sept.)
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David Wiesner, Author Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-59762-0
Caldecott Medalist Wiesner once again presents an offbeat premise and unconventional artwork to tempt youngsters into his deliciously skewed landscapes. In this thoroughly winning flight of fancy, it seems the strange events that occurred on Tuesday
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David Wiesner, Author Clarion Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-62974-1
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. (Aug.)
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David Wiesner, Author HarperCollins Publishers $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10990-5
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 exceptional choice for children and visually enticing for...
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David Wiesner, Author Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-54382-5
The Caldecott Honor recipient for the dreamlike picture book Free Fall offers another work to delight children and spark their imaginations. Wiesner's detailed, exquisitely rendered paintings draw the reader into his story of a hurricane's progress...
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David Wiesner, Clarion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-75663-6
Three-time Caldecott winner Wiesner (Flotsam) introduces a desert lizard named Art, a self-important portrait painter who undergoes a metamorphosis, inside and out, when his pesky lizard friend, Max, decides he wants to paint, too. "What should I...
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Donna Jo Napoli and David Wiesner, illus. by David Wiesner. Clarion, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-547-48393-1
In Wiesner and Napoli’s unsettling tale of self-discovery, a young mermaid who stars in a boardwalk aquarium show begins to question her circumstances after a human girl offers her friendship. Though she can’t talk and has never been outside, Mira—as
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David Wiesner, Author, Dorothy Briley, Editor Clarion Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-55113-4
In this nearly wordless picture book, Wiesner ( Hurricane ; Free Fall ) again takes readers on an imaginative voyage, using everyday reality merely as a touchstone. Here, a squadron of frogs soars through the night air one Tuesday, squatting upon...
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David Wiesner, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator . Clarion $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-19457-5
Two-time Caldecott winner Wiesner (Tuesday
; The Three Pigs
) crafts another wordless mystery, this one set on an ordinary beach and under an enchanted sea. A saucerlike fish's eye stares from the exact center of the dust jacket, and the fish'
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David Wiesner, Author, Eavid Wiesner, Illustrator, Kim Kahng, With Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21407-3
This tale of enchantment and familial devotion is the retelling of a lesser known English fairy tale. Bamborough Castle is the home of a widowed Kking and his lovely daughter Margaret and son Childe Wynde. The King falls in love with a beautiful but
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David Wiesner. Clarion, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-98731-9
The plot of Caldecott Medalist Wiesner’s latest gives his artistic gifts a new challenge: rendering machines as living beings. A robot family welcomes an assemble-it-yourself baby robot but can’t get it running properly until their daughter comes to
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