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How to Read a Wordless Picture Book — The Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture
How do you read a wordless picture book? You read the pictures — and there are no air quotes around the word read. The pictures are the language and they must be read as carefully as any book with text. It’s a radical decision that an artist makes to not...
Review of Robobaby
Robobaby by David Wiesner; illus. by the author Primary Clarion 32 pp. g 9/20 978-0-544-98731-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-41605-0 $12.99 In his latest picture book told with comics panels, Wiesner (Mr. Wuffles!, rev. 9/13) presents a new-baby story; the twist here is that the family in question are robots. The...
Mr. Wuffles! and Journey: Compare and Contrast
What does a wordless picture book about an imaginary world have in common with a mostly wordless book about a cat's encounter with aliens? Whether these two books -- Journey and Mr. Wuffles! -- have anything in common is an interesting question, but that is exactly what the Caldecott committee will have to consider....
Mr. Wuffles!
First off, let me say that I am not a dyed-in-the-wool Wiesner fan. Sometimes I don't understand his storytelling, and sometimes I find his art a little too perfect, maybe even a little cold. So it will surprise some of my children's book friends (who might or might not have...
Review of Mr. Wuffles!
Mr. Wuffles!by David Wiesner; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Clarion 32 pp.10/13 978-0-618-75661-2 $17.99 gIs anything so fraught with potential energy as a stalking cat, or as relaxed as a bored one? Mr. Wuffles disdains all the playthings he’s offered — until, amongst scorned...
Five questions for David Wiesner
Photo: Annie Hosfeld.Cat-and-mouse games are so over — what might a feline do when faced with little green men? My question is entirely literal, and David Wiesner’s answer, in the form of his new picture book Mr. Wuffles! (Clarion, 3–7 years), is completely reasonable. See five more questions below.1. History is...
David Wiesner's Favorite Caldecott
Structurally unlike any medal winner before it — or since — Black and White (1991) by David Macaulay redefined the way stories could be told in picture books. And, just as importantly, it did this while being very, very funny.—David Wiesner,winner of the Caldecott Medal in 2007 for Flotsam,in 2002...
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