Tuesday: A Caldecott Award Winner

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weeks worth of literacy planning based on the story Tuesday by David Wiesner. This planning is suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils or SEN Key Stage 3 pupils. It was original successfully delivered to a Year 6 class. Tuesday” is a Caldecott Award winning book from the creative mind of David Wiesner and is about how some seemingly ordinary frogs from a pond go on a magical adventure throughout the city. David Wiesner’s story of a magic along with his beautiful illustrations makes “Tuesday” a mesmerizing book for children. Updates on my Top Ten Reading Goals of 2023 (& What I Hope to Still Accomplish by the End of the Year)

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) Caldecott Medalist Wiesner (Tuesday) again takes to the air, with watercolors that render words superfluous. Here, a boy on a class trip to the Empire State Building discovers that the landmark, Continue reading » Osman's inspiration for the book came from a visit he made to an upmarket retirement village. [1] He wrote the book over 18 months in secret. [2]Flood, Alison (22 December 2020). "Richard Osman becomes first debut author to land Christmas No 1". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 December 2020 . Retrieved 22 December 2020. This is part of my 365 Kids Books challenge. For an explanation see my review for 101 Amazing Facts about Australia You can see all the books on their own shelf. Thanks to the marvelous people @chpublib and @ocplibraries who are keeping me supplied with all the Wiesner books. Would love to join this, as I have been reading the posts from other bloggers for years now for Top Ten Tuesday. I may not be able to do every prompt but I look forward to getting some done (at least one a month) to change things up on Bookluvrs Haven. And then next Tuesday at 7:58 P. M. something else begins to fly. . . well, okay, I won't say, even though a few thousand people have rated it so far.

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. November 7: Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines ( Submitted by Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next) Three-time Caldecott winner Wiesner (Flotsam) introduces a desert lizard named Art, a self-important portrait painter who undergoes a metamorphosis, inside and out, when his pesky lizard friend, Max, Continue reading » Text isn’t a direct contributor the story; there’s a grand total of six words in the whole story and are used to describe the time and date. What it does instead is create a mysterious and tone; The use of so little words in the story make the reader feel like they don’t really know what will happen. The line “Tuesday evening, around eight,” is very vague, not revealing anything, just the time. The time of day revealed in the text also adds to the tone. For a child, that time usually means time for bed but for the story, it means the beginning.

October 17: Books with Weather Events/Words in the Title/on the Cover ( I’m picturing a list of titles with weather-related words in them like storm, rain, blizzard, flood, lightning, hail, snow, wind, etc. OR covers with lightning/storms in the picture.) 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] Adams, Tim (22 September 2020). "The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman; The Diver and the Lover by Jeremy Vine – review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 December 2020 . Retrieved 15 December 2020.

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!. There are no words in this picture book; only gorgeous whimsical illustrations of ... flying frogs!! The nearly wordless Caldecott-winning book follows a squadron of frogs as they fly through the night on lilypads; PW called the visuals ""stunning: slightly surrealistic, imbued with mood and Continue reading »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. David Wiesner specializes in wordless picture books. In this one, the only word used (and it's used sparingly) is Tuesday as a reminder that all the events are taking place on a Tuesday night.

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.

The Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman". mediacentre/proginfo. bbc.com . Retrieved 23 March 2023. August 29: Water ( This can be covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc.) This is an AMAZING meme you have going here! I have read so many great posts and found some amazing bloggers along the way thanks to TTT! I think I may even begin to partak myself! Thank you for doing this! Synopsis: The events recorded here are verified by an undisclosed source to have happened somewhere, U.S.A.. on Tuesday. All those in doubt are reminded that there is always another Tuesday.