Tuesday: A Caldecott Award Winner

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It's Tuesday night, and a large bullfrog suddenly wakes up to discover he and his lily pad are floating in the air! Soon the sky is filled with flying frogs, careening on their pads and having a whale of a time. At dawn, they all come crashing to the ground, and return to their now boring life at the pond. Whatever will next Tuesday bring? Wiesner uses his considerable artistic talents to weave humor and the surreal into this near wordless tale. Barnes & Noble Staff Publishers Weekly describes this book as having visuals that are “stunning, slightly surrealistic and imbued with mood and mystery." This review was short and almost as wordless as the wordless picture book. It was not really helpful in explaining the purpose of the book. Where is this story set? What time of day? The sun is setting and the moon is starting to rise in the sky.

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.’urn:lcp:tuesday00wies:epub:e98674ba-47a1-4852-aae3-68435fde8a9a Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tuesday00wies Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4qj8mj8f Isbn 0395551137 Lccn 90039358 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1878981M Openlibrary_edition The three frames zoom in on the turtle sitting on a log. This technique is used a lot in films. An establishing shot opens a film and is then followed by close-ups. Ask the children to think about the information we can get from an establishing shot (e.g. setting). The information can we get from a close-up (e.g. emotions and reactions). Notice where the turtle is looking. Does the direction change? What might this suggest? Flying frogs Tuesday is a wordless picture book that vividly depicts strange events that happened at various times of the day on Tuesday.

Wiesner has won two other Caldecott Medals – in 2002 for The Three Pigs, and in 2007 for Flotsam. He has also received three Caldecott Honors for Free Fall, Sector 7 and Mr. Wuffles!. Do you think the police will solve the mystery? What explanation might they come up with for the night’s events?The main theme of Tuesday is the idea of using your imagination to create magical situations. Throughout the entire book, magic happens. The situations that occur are completely unrealistic and could not occur in the real world. For example, the frogs are flying on lily pads all over the city. Frogs don’t fly on lily pads in real life, but the entire storyline is focused on that happening. Therefore, a reader definitely needs to be able to use their imagination to picture this story happening, or else the story wouldn’t exist. As a result, this theme is extremely visible throughout the book, Tuesday.