David Wiesner is the second person in the Caldecott Medal's history to win the award three times, for Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002), and Flotsam (2007), and has also received two Caldecott Honors. He lives with his wife near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have two children and two cats. Visit his website at www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner.
"Expertly imagined, composed, drawn and colored, this is Wiesner at
his best."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Wiesner once again produces a
fantasy adventure that isn't like anything else around."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"This exemplary Wiesnerian
blend of ordinary and extraordinary incorporates the delights of
Borrowers-style innovations, quintessential cat behavior, and
Wiesner's own exquisitely fashioned art."
-- Horn Book (starred review)"Once again Wiesner dips into his
impressible imagination to deliver a mostly wordless conceptual
picture book where the mundane and the magical collide. . .
.Wiesner is a three-time Caldecott winner. Three. Fans will be
ready to pounce."
-- Booklist (starred review)"Visual storytelling at its best."
-- School Library Journal (starred review)"The award-winning
Wiesner (his trophy collection would make Meryl Streep blush) is a
master of the form, a magical realist who makes the commonplace
seem suddenly more interesting."
-- The Atlantic Wire"Fans of Tuesday will recognize Wiesner's easy
shift from the mundane to the fantastical here as well as his deft
and plausible creation of a skewed reality. . . . On a more
dramatic note, there's a Spielberg/Lucas level of glory to the bold
ant-back and ladybug-flying escape scenes (you can practically hear
the John Williams score)."
-- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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