Book Title- Tuesday
Author and Illustrator- David Wiesner
Publisher-Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date- 1991
ISBN Number- 0-395-55113-7
Rating: 5 out of 5!
Tuesday is about frogs that inhabit
a community at nighttime. The frogs aren’t looking for trouble, rather they are
curious and want to experience human objects and ways of living such as going
through the laundry, peering into a homes window, and watching tv. Come
morning, the frogs go back to their pond like nothing ever happened, but some
people know that something definitely happened, that it wasn’t just another
normal Tuesday night.
This wordless picture book is
nothing like I have ever read before. Without words, the reader (of any age) is
encouraged to fill the book with emotion, sounds, and think for the characters
because there are no words to think about those things for them. This book not
only stimulates a child’s vivid imagination, but it could help children learn
how to accept others points of view if used in the classroom setting being that
someone else reading might have a totally different opinion on characteristics
such as what sounds are being made, what the characters are thinking and the
emotions that the characters are feeling. Before opening this book, I asked
myself: “How is it even possible to read a wordless book?” What I did not
realize is the words are not printed on the page, rather painted on with watercolor along the edges of Wiesner’s illustrations that are thoughtful and detailed
enough to tell the story without saying a single word.
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