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David Wiesner
Summaries and Lesson Plan Ideas of David Wiesners Other Works:
1. Flotsam
This is a short picture book that contains no words. It is about a boy who finds a
Melville underwater camera on the beach. The boy gets the film developed and finds that
this camera reveals another world under the sea showing all different types of sea
creatures. He comes across the last picture of a girl holding a photo of another person
holding a photo and so on. The boy recognizes that this camera is meant to be passed on.
So he then takes a photo holding the other photos and tosses the camera back into the sea
for someone else find. Overall this story guides individuals imagination while reading.
This book could be used to teach students about the different sea creatures that
can be found. The teacher could ask students to bring in different objects from nature that
they find and the class can look closely, draw, and write observations as a science unit.
2. Free Fall
The boy in this book has a dream after he has read a book about maps. In this
dream he is taken to multiple different worlds that are not like the real world. This dream
takes him through a journey that includes many different items that are found in his
bedroom as shown in the last image of the book.
This could explain to students how dreams can include pieces of reality. As an
assignment students could be given a piece of paper and have to write about what is
happening in the dreams. The book can be interpreted in many ways since there is no
words to go along with the pictures the kids get to use their imagination.
3. The Three Pigs

This book is about the three pigs that escape from the huffing and puffing wolf.
The wolf knocks at each pigs door demanding to let him in and if the pigs do not he
says he will blow the house down. They each escape when the wolf blows them out of the
page exiting the story. From there the pigs go on an adventure through other childrens
books making different friends along the way. Finally the wolf finds the three pigs but
they scare him off with the characters that they met along their adventure.
I could see this as a compare and contrast writing assignment. The students could
read The Three Pigs by David Wiesner and read The Three Little Pigs by James Orchard
Halliwell and discuss the similarities and differences between the two books.
4. Art & Max

This story is about Arthur and Max and their adventures with painting. It begins
with Arthurs painting be praised by another lizard and Max feeling like he cant do
anything right. When asking Arthur what to paint he replies, Well you could paint
me. Max takes this literally and begins to paint him. In the beginning Arthur was not
happy but as the story goes on Arthur learns it is good to be different.
This book could be used as a way of telling children to be themselves and feel
free to express themselves. You could have them do a coloring project where they are to
draw what ever they want and then share about it.
5. Tuesday
This story begins with four simple words, Tuesday evening, around eight. From
there you see frog leaving their pond on their lily pads like theyre magic carpets and
flying through the town. There are only a few more words through out, giving time
stamps on the night. The next morning the cops investigate the lily pads all over town and
the book shows a sneak peak of what is to happen next Tuesday with a shadow of a flying
pig.
This book could be used to help children start to use imaginative and creative
writing. Give them each a chance to look at book and have them write what the think
would be said if there were words. Have them share within a small group to see what
others came up with, then compare and contrast.
6. Hurricane
The story begins with brothers, David and George, preparing for a hurricane and
hoping there cat Hannibal does not get caught in it. When the hurricane hits they wonder
what is happening outside. The next morning they go outside to find a giant tree fallen
across their neighbors yard and begin to imagine and create adventures surrounding the
tree, until it get hauled away.
This book could be used as a safety awareness book. Ask your students if the have
an emergency plan at home and go over what the emergency plan is while they are at
school.
7. Sector 7
This a wordless picture book about a young boy who is on a field trip the Empire
State building and while our on the observatory gets whisked away by a cloud to Sector
7. There he sees how clouds are designed and what the different types are. He then begins
to design his own clouds, which he wakes into realistic shapes, and gets whisked back
down to where his class is and sees his creations in the sky.
This book could be used as a weather lesson as well as an art project. Have them
draw their own shapes of clouds and then talk about what clouds are. Then talk about the
water cycle and how clouds are apart of it.
8. Tongues of Jade
This is a retelling of seventeen Chinese American folktales. The author retells
them, by weaving everything together with perceptive commentary on the stories' origins
and intents. Some of the virtues and morals portrayed are from familiar folktale territory--
the importance of respect for parents The Little Emperor and of kindness to others Waters
of Gold and the drawbacks of greed The Rat in the Wall. The stories include a lot of
magic, and all praise the qualities patience and diligence.
A way that this book could be taught in a lesson is by having students study where
some of these folktales originated from, this could be a who lesson on culture and they
could even find some folktales from their own heritage.
9. June 29, 1999

An interesting story about a girl who did an experiment where she sent vegetable
seedlings into the sky. On June 29th giant vegetables fall from the sky, Holly is
disappointed because she realizes they are not her veggies because she did not send some
of the vegetables that fell down. Later we see that the vegetables came from some extra-
terrestrials in space.
A way this could be integrated into a lesson is by studying how vegetables grow.
Students could grow their own vegetables and study whether or not it would be feasible
to think that vegetables could grow in space considering the conditions that vegetables
need to grow and what conditions are like in space.
10. Mr. Wuffles

With little words David Weisner depicts a story about Mr. Wuffles the cat who
finds an interesting toy, a little spaceship, only to have little aliens in it. The ship gets
damaged with all the motion and the aliens come out and have to take cover from Mr.
Wuffles. They have some interesting interactions with some ants and a ladybug and then
find a solution to fix the spaceship. They escape from under their hiding spot and go off
in their spaceship.
After reading the book have students guess what the aliens are saying throughout
the book. Then students can make up their own language and try to communicate with
each other.
References
Central Rappahannock Regional Library. David Wiesner: He's Still "the Kid Who Can
Draw". Retrieved from: http://www.librarypoint.org/david_wiesner
Houghton Mifflin Company. (2016) David Weisner Biography. Retrieved from
http:www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner/biography.html
Houghton Mifflin Company. (2016) The Origin of a Wordless Author. Retrieved from
http://www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner/biography.html
Wiesner, D. (2010). Art & Max. Boston: Clarion Books.
Wiesner, D. (2006). Flotsam. New York: Clarion Books.
Wiesner, D. (1988). The Three Pigs. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
Wiesner, D. (1990). Hurricane. New York: Clarion Books.
Wiesner, D. (1992). June 29, 1999. New York: Clarion Books.
Wiesner, D. (2013). Mr. Wuffles!. New York: Clarion Books.
Wiesner, D. (1999). Sector 7. New York: Clarion Books.
Wiesner, D. (2001). The Three Pigs. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Wiesner, D. (1991). Tuesday. New York: Clarion Books.
Yep, L., & Wiesner, David. (1991). Tongues of jade (1st ed.). New York, NY:
HarperCollins.

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David Wiesner

Summaries and Lesson Plan Ideas of David Wiesners Other Works:

3. The Three Pigs

4. Art & Max

9. June 29, 1999

10. Mr. Wuffles

Draw". Retrieved from: http://www.librarypoint.org/david_wiesner

Houghton Mifflin Company. (2016) David Weisner Biography. Retrieved from

Wiesner, D. (2010). Art & Max. Boston: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (2006). Flotsam. New York: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (1988). The Three Pigs. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Wiesner, D. (1990). Hurricane. New York: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (1992). June 29, 1999. New York: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (2013). Mr. Wuffles!. New York: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (1999). Sector 7. New York: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (1991). Tuesday. New York: Clarion Books.

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