David Wiesner was altijd gefascineerd door de opeenvolging van gedachten die een vastgelegde afbeelding voorafgaan en erop volgen. Zijn werken bezitten een filmische kwaliteit, die de voortgang van ideeën overbrengt die naar een bepaald moment leiden en erna. Het gepatroonde behang van zijn kindertijd, versierd met raketten, olifantenkoppen en vergrootglazen, wekte een creativiteit die zijn kunst doordrenkt met een dromerige, fantasievolle essentie. Geïnspireerd door meesters uit de Renaissance tot surrealisten, construeert Wiesner nieuwe werelden op papier, vaak door middel van woordeloze verhalen die de aard van visuele storytelling verkennen.
A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep.
In this ingenious and imaginative - nearly wordless - picture book, frogs in a pond lift off on their lily pads and fly to a nearby town where they zoom through a woman's living room, encounter a dog playing in his yard, and distract a bathrobe-clad citizen from his midnight snack. Who knows what will happen next Tuesday?
When the wolf comes a-knocking and a-puffing, he blows the pigs right out of the tale and into a whole new imaginative landscape, where they begin a freewheeling adventure as they wander and fly through other stories.
A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book In a near wordless masterpiece that could only have been devised by David Wiesner, a cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He's much more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens--but the ship wasn't designed for this kind of rough treatment. Between motion sickness and damaged equipment, the aliens are in deep trouble. When the space visitors dodge the cat and take shelter behind the radiator to repair the damage, they make a host of insect friends. The result? A humorous exploration of cooperation between aliens and insects, and of the universal nature of communication involving symbols, "cave" paintings, and gestures of friendship.
When a new baby is delivered to a family of robots, the adults are flummoxed by technical difficulties. Big sister to the rescue! A hilarious gem from David Wiesner, three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal.