David Wiesner Book order
February 5, 1956
David Wiesner has always been intrigued by the sequence of thoughts that precede and follow a captured image. His works possess a cinematic quality, conveying the progression of ideas leading up to and after a particular moment. The patterned wallpaper of his childhood, adorned with rockets, elephant heads, and magnifying glasses, awakened a creativity that imbues his art with a dreamlike, imaginative essence. Drawing inspiration from Renaissance masters to surrealists, Wiesner constructs new worlds on paper, often through wordless narratives that explore the nature of visual storytelling.
- 2020
- 2020
Robobaby
- 32 pages
- 2 hours of reading
When a new baby is delivered to a family of robots, the adults are flummoxed by technical difficulties. Big sister to the rescue! A hilarious gem from David Wiesner, three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal.
- 2013
A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book In a near wordless masterpiece that could only have been devised by David Wiesner, a cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He's much more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens--but the ship wasn't designed for this kind of rough treatment. Between motion sickness and damaged equipment, the aliens are in deep trouble. When the space visitors dodge the cat and take shelter behind the radiator to repair the damage, they make a host of insect friends. The result? A humorous exploration of cooperation between aliens and insects, and of the universal nature of communication involving symbols, "cave" paintings, and gestures of friendship.
- 2012
Three Pigs
- 40 pages
- 2 hours of reading
When the wolf comes a-knocking and a-puffing, he blows the pigs right out of the tale and into a whole new imaginative landscape, where they begin a freewheeling adventure as they wander and fly through other stories.
- 2006
A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep.
- 1991
Tuesday
- 32 pages
- 2 hours of reading
In this ingenious and imaginative - nearly wordless - picture book, frogs in a pond lift off on their lily pads and fly to a nearby town where they zoom through a woman's living room, encounter a dog playing in his yard, and distract a bathrobe-clad citizen from his midnight snack. Who knows what will happen next Tuesday?
