I guess I’m pretty much alone here: The artwork, as usual, is wonderful, but I found this story slightly creepy. Am I missing something special that I simply didn’t get? I wonder.

There are no words in this picture book; only gorgeous whimsical illustrations of ... flying frogs!! Tuesdays aren't supposed to be like this. Tuesday is a nice, respectable day of the week. Chaos should not envelop such a day's night. The story contains only six words and three points that determine the time of the action. The whole story is narrated by colorful pictures of frogs flying on their lily pads. In time, the young Wiesner began exploring the history of art, delving into the Renaissance at first — Michelangelo, Dürer, and da Vinci — then moving on to such surrealists as Magritte, de Chirico, and Dalí. As he got older, he would sit, inspired by these masters, at the oak drafting table his father had found for him and would construct new worlds on paper and create wordless comic books, such as Slop the Wonder Pig, and silent movies, like his kung fu vampire film The Saga of Butchula.

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My Top Ten Tuesday is Bookish Confessions @ https://thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com/2019/07/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-confessions.html The Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman". mediacentre/proginfo. bbc.com . Retrieved 23 March 2023. A character must be at Ascension Phase 2 (which requires Adventure Rank 25) to begin leveling up talents using talent materials. The Indianapolis Public Library. "2014 McFadden Memorial Lecture: Children's Author David Wiesner" . Retrieved 17 November 2014. Each week has 4 lessons planned and includes all resources. End of unit outcome would be the children writing a fictional story.

This delighted and amazed me. The first frames brought bubbles of joy flooding my system. What a joy and delight this was to read. Do you read a wordless picture book, or do you experience it? I didn't know a thing about this. I really didn't know that flying frogs could bring so much joy to me. After a 10-way publishing auction, [1] Penguin Random House acquired the rights to The Thursday Murder Club and its sequel The Man Who Died Twice for a seven-figure sum [3] in 2019. [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 Continue reading » The American artist David Wiesner is a doyen of the wordless book format. His beautifully constructed works are strange, surreal and intriguing. They show you an alternative universe and leave you asking questions of ‘how’, what’ and ‘why’. Spread from Tuesday by David Wiesner

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September 5: Books That Defied My Expectations ( books you thought you would didn’t like that you loved, books you thought you’d love but didn’t, books that were not the genres they seemed to be, or in any other way subverted your expectations!) (Submitted by Sia @ everybookadoorway.com)

a b c "Meet the Author: Richard Osman on debut novel The Thursday Murder Club". The Sunday Post. 19 September 2020. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 15 December 2020. Lovely artwork and lovely idea. I certainly enjoyed it and can only imagine what a child looking at it via nightlight will think. Wiesner has always been intrigued by and curious about what comes before and after the captured image. His books somehow convey the sequence of thoughts leading up to and following each picture, and that quality explain why they are frequently described as cinematic.Lovejoy, Hannah (20 November 2020). "Pointless host Richard Osman opens up about Steven Spielberg making a movie of his debut novel". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020 . Retrieved 15 December 2020. Those events involve frogs flying through the town and countryside on lily pads. The illustrations are Wiesner's usual wonderful surrealism. The pallet is rich in blues and greens befitting a night time amphibian adventures. As some Character Talent Materials look like books (or scrolls), they are commonly referred to as "talent books" by the community.

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, Continue reading » Tuesday is a wordless picture book that vividly depicts strange events that happened at various times of the day on Tuesday. 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 Continue reading »Leonard, Andrew. "Sent In The Clouds. The story, told entirely without words, of an ingenious boy who changes the way the sky looks". The New York Times.