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David Wiesner is one of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed picture book creators in the world. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won numerous awards.
Three of the picture books he both wrote and illustrated became instant classics when they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2007, making him only the second person in the award's long history to have won three times. He has also received two Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall and Sector 7.
Wiesner grew up in suburban New Jersey, known to his classmates as "the kid who could draw." He went on to become a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was able to commit himself to the full-time study of art and to explore further his passion for visual storytelling. He soon discovered that picture books were the perfect vehicle for his work.
Wiesner generally spends several years creating each new book. Many versions are sketched and revised until the story line flows smoothly and each image works the way he wants it to. He creates three-dimensional models of objects he can't observe in real life, such as flying pigs and lizards standing upright, to add authenticity to his drawings.
David Wiesner lives with his family outside Philadelphia.
Photo credit Peggy Morsch
Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner celebrates different kinds of creativity in this beautifully illustrated and wittily observed story of friendship. Friends Art and Max both love painting; Max is just a beginner and his experiments to get it right take the two friends on some delightful adventures through colour and line as he tries to find out exactly what he wants to paint – and how he’ll do it!
Longlisted for the 2015 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal - One of our Books of the Year 2014 A cat story with a difference! When Mr Wuffles finds a toy space ship he can’t resist playing with it but, as he tips and tosses it, the results for the aliens inside it are very scary! Feeling motion sick and with their equipment damaged, the aliens find a place of safety and set about fixing their craft so that they can make an escape. Mr Wuffles watches and learns. But will he let them go? Stunning illustrations celebrate imaginative play.
December 2013 Book of the Month A cat story with a difference! When Mr Wuffles finds a toy space ship he can’t resist playing with it but, as he tips and tosses it, the results for the aliens inside it are very scary! Feeling motion sick and with their equipment damaged, the aliens find a place of safety and set about fixing their craft so that they can make an escape. Mr Wuffles watches and learns. But will he let them go? Stunning illustrations celebrate imaginative play.
A stunning picture book, by prize-winning illustrator David Wiesner, who almost wordlessly tells a magical and astonishing adventure through brilliant illustrations. On one unusual Tuesday evening a strange event occurs. The frogs on the pond rise up, up and away, each one aboard a lily pad. Their airborne adventures through the night are full of surprise and wonder while the absence of text inspires imagination and dreaming.
Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner has created an exceptional wordless picture book with a stunning story that is full of awe and wonder. Exploring the beach, a young boy finds a camera which holds a secret! The camera leads the boy on an amazing and magical under-sea adventure richly told in pictures alone. A note from the author: ‘I had a visual idea of a kid walking along a beach finding something — something strange or magical, I didn’t know what it was going to be. So that vision combined with a more vague idea, on a story level, of a way to connect kids across time and space, some kind of connection through the ages. When I thought of the idea of a kid finding a camera, it just seemed to work so well because I could throw the camera out there in the ocean, and the story just came together.’
Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner takes a very clever and fresh look at a familiar story. Here, the wolf does come a visiting and he does huff and puff and blow down the houses of the three little pigs but that’s just the start of the story. What happens next sees the little pigs off an on amazing adventure. Folding up their old houses and turning them into a paper aeroplane they fly away and get themselves tangled up with all kinds of other familiar rhymes and stories.
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner celebrates different kinds of creativity in this beautifully illustrated and wittily observed story of friendship. Friends Art and Max both love painting; Max is just a beginner and his experiments to get it right take the two friends on some delightful adventures through colour and line as he tries to find out exactly what he wants to paint – and how he’ll do it! Lovereading4kids comment: Whether you have a budding artist in the family or not this is a highly original ground-breaking picture book with minimal text and plenty of colourful imagery featuring two friends, one a talented artist and the other a beginner to it. The author and illustrator is the three-time Caldecott medallist David Wiesner.
The few seconds after the ball leaves the bat can be infinitely long. For this eager young player, there's plenty of time to envision the increasingly fantastic and funny situations that might interfere with making the catch. Summoning determination and courage, he overcomes the imaginary obstacles and turns them into a springboard for success. I Got It! reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary, taking readers on an amazing journey of the imagination in a few seconds on a baseball field. 'Three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner hits it out of the park with this almost-wordless picture book' Booklist
The night of the hurricane is one that David and George will never forget. When it hits David and George's house they stay snuggled up inside with their cat until it's all over. The next morning they spot a fallen tree which sparks their imagination; they embark on expeditions through the jungle and ride the seas on a pirate ship. An incredible adventure from multi-award-winning Wiesner.
Longlisted for the 2015 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal - One of our Books of the Year 2014 A cat story with a difference! When Mr Wuffles finds a toy space ship he can’t resist playing with it but, as he tips and tosses it, the results for the aliens inside it are very scary! Feeling motion sick and with their equipment damaged, the aliens find a place of safety and set about fixing their craft so that they can make an escape. Mr Wuffles watches and learns. But will he let them go? Stunning illustrations celebrate imaginative play.
Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner has created an exceptional wordless picture book with a stunning story that is full of awe and wonder. Exploring the beach, a young boy finds a camera which holds a secret! The camera leads the boy on an amazing and magical under-sea adventure richly told in pictures alone. A note from the author: ‘I had a visual idea of a kid walking along a beach finding something — something strange or magical, I didn’t know what it was going to be. So that vision combined with a more vague idea, on a story level, of a way to connect kids across time and space, some kind of connection through the ages. When I thought of the idea of a kid finding a camera, it just seemed to work so well because I could throw the camera out there in the ocean, and the story just came together.’
Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner takes a very clever and fresh look at a familiar story. Here, the wolf does come a visiting and he does huff and puff and blow down the houses of the three little pigs but that’s just the start of the story. What happens next sees the little pigs off an on amazing adventure. Folding up their old houses and turning them into a paper aeroplane they fly away and get themselves tangled up with all kinds of other familiar rhymes and stories.
A stunning picture book, by prize-winning illustrator David Wiesner, who almost wordlessly tells a magical and astonishing adventure through brilliant illustrations. On one unusual Tuesday evening a strange event occurs. The frogs on the pond rise up, up and away, each one aboard a lily pad. Their airborne adventures through the night are full of surprise and wonder while the absence of text inspires imagination and dreaming.
Winner of the 2007 Caldecott Medal 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. Each of David Wiesner's amazing picture books has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to the Empire State Building, a well-known nursery tale. In this Caldecott Medal winner, a day at the beach is the springboard into a wildly imaginative exploration of the mysteries of the deep, and of the qualities that enable us to witness these wonders and delight in them.
A Caldecott classic celebrating twenty years in print. David Wiesner received the 1991 Caldecott Medal for Tuesday. 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. Now, with remarkable advances in the technology of color reproduction, the original artwork for Tuesday is being reproduced anew, for an edition even more faithful to the palette and texture of David Wiesner's watercolor paintings. The whimsical account of a Tuesday when frogs were airborne on their lily pads will continue to enchant readers of all ages.
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