Citation: Wiesner, D. (1991). Tuesday. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
Book Summary: This is a wordless picture book except for two pages that tell the day of the week and the time of day. Readers are taken on a fantastic journey as a group of frogs sitting on lily pads take flight and fly around the city. They chase birds, fly past people's windows, and into a sleeping old woman's house. When the sun comes up, they return to the pond. News reporters show up to interview people who witnessed the flying frogs, and detectives are left looking at the lily pads and wondering what happened. The following Tuesday, pigs begin to fly out of a barn.
Book Summary: This is a wordless picture book except for two pages that tell the day of the week and the time of day. Readers are taken on a fantastic journey as a group of frogs sitting on lily pads take flight and fly around the city. They chase birds, fly past people's windows, and into a sleeping old woman's house. When the sun comes up, they return to the pond. News reporters show up to interview people who witnessed the flying frogs, and detectives are left looking at the lily pads and wondering what happened. The following Tuesday, pigs begin to fly out of a barn.
My Impressions: This illustrations in this book are wonderful. I love how the illustrator used several panels on some of the pages to show the progression of events. Many children wonder what kind of strange things might happen while they are sleeping. This imaginative story gives them one possible scenario.
Professional Review: K-Gr 4--As the full moon rises over a peaceful marsh, so do frogs on their lily pads levitating straight up into the air and sailing off, with surprise with some laundry, hovering briefly before a TV left on. A dog chases one lone low coasting frog, but is summarily routed by a concerted amphibious armada. Suddenly the rays of the rising sun dispel the magic; the frogs fall to ed but gratified expressions. Fish stick their heads out of the water to watch; a turtle gapes goggle-eyed. The phalanx of froggies glides over houses in a sleeping village, interrupting the one witness's midnight snack, tangling the ground and hop back to their marsh, leaving police puzzling over the lily pads on Main Street. In the final pages, the sun sets on the following Tuesday--and the air fills with ascending pigs! Dominated by rich blues and greens, and fully exploiting its varied perspectives, this book treats its readers to the pleasures of airborne adventure. It may not be immortal, but kids will love its lighthearted, meticulously imagined, fun-without-amoral fantasy. Tuesday is bound to take off.
Dooley, P. (1991, May). [Review of the book Tuesday, by D. Wiesner]. School Library Journal, 37(5), 86. Retrieved from www.schoollibraryjournal.com.
Library Uses: Students could write words to go with the pictures in this book. They could also draw pictures and write a story for what they think will happen next as the pigs begin to go on their adventure.
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