Tuesday: A Caldecott Award Winner

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Wiesner has always been intrigued by and curious about what comes before and after the captured image.

Juxtaposition: The frogs are fantastic and it’s funny to see them set in such a mundane situation as this.First, examine the strategies the author used to create mood wordlessly, then think about the kind of vocabulary and phrasing that would fit the pictures. The colour palettes in those were so intensely saturated, where now there’s a tendency to go dark, greyscale, and faded. As the sun rises over the horizon and hits the frogs, the flying lilies cease to fly and the frogs fall back to the earth.

It’s a brilliant bit of writing, you get the constant baffled frustration from Dex, and the occasional surprise of seeing him through the eyes of someone who doesn’t know him intimately to see why he keeps being seen like that.But, perhaps because this fantasy never coalesces around a human figure, it is less accessible and less resonant than his tales that center on a child protagonist. My name is Claire, and I’m an early-career editor, UCL MA Publishing class of 16/17, an avid reader and a compulsive opinion-haver. I am sure there are many, many more wide and varied ideas, but these are just some that come to mind. Notice, for example, that Wiesner puts virtually nothing at the halfway point, where the book’s gutter lies. It also won two state awards: The Kentucky Bluegrass Award for K-3 in 1993 and the Young Hoosier Award for K-3 in the same year.