Tuesday

TUESDAY is an hilarious work of visual and literary art. It entertains and fires the imaginations of readers and those not yet reading alike. I have given to several children over the years and it has alway been a hit. That's why I have just ordered two more copies.

This is a great story without words - great for imaginative learners who can work on putting words to pictures. I got this for my 5 year old nephew and so he could share it with some of his friends who are not Native English speakers.

Unusual things can happen any day of the week, but this particular Tuesday was full of flying amphibians. Just wait until next Tuesday! The detailed pictures are the whole story with time notations throughout the night to mark the strange events. Delightful!

This book has beautiful illustrations. In the beginning, frogs float on lily pads as if they are magic carpets. They float over the town and down the streets while it is still dark. There are so many of them. Some even pass by windows. A man eating sandwich stops when he notices them. His eyes go wide.

I really liked the illustration where they run into a clothes line. The frogs' facial expressions and gestures are very comical. One of them floats through a pant leg. Another does pull-ups on the wire and loses his lily pad.

The frogs decide to explore inside the homes and float down the chimneys and through open windows. Many of them wander into a living room. A frog turns on the TV with his tongue. They all have different reactions to what is on the TV.

One of the frogs is still outside and a dog spots him. He pulls up his lily pad to come to a halt before turning around and speeding away. Many frogs join and the dog doesn't attack; he just runs alongside them.

The frogs return home at day break. Many of their lily pads were left behind on the street and everyone wonders what happened. On the next Tuesday, pigs fly.

I thought the book was okay the first time around, but I did not pay as much attention to the illustrations as I did the second time around. The second read was much more enjoyable and everything really came to life before my eyes.

It's mostly wordless and rather imaginative. Not as good as some of his other books, but still good. A bunch of frogs go flying on lilypads throughout the city, through people's laundry and houses. Then they fall off and hop back to the water, leaving a bunch of lily pads in the middle of the street to confound people. At the end, on the next Tuesday a bunch of pigs go flying through the air.

It's silly and rather surreal, with pretty pictures. There's not much to it beyond a lovely flight of imagination, and an implication that we're witnessing the beginnings of something truly unusual.

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You're not getting this one for the great written text of the storyline, because basically there's none at all. What Tuesday is, is a collection of great artwork revolving around a bunch of frogs sitting on lilipads that float in the air and that they somehow can manuever around. Some of them are quite humorous, I particularly like the one even before the story or even copyright page appears where an asleep frog suddenly rises into the air with a shocked look on its face, then the frog to the left does also looking up even more shocked and the original brown frog is casually waving as if he's cool and calm and knows exactly what's going on. Most of the artwork throughout is pretty detailed, if you take the time to look you can see little tings like fish poking their heads out of the water in shock or maybe jealousy. I sort of had The Ride of the Valkyries (classical music song at start of Apocalypse Now with all the helicopters) playing in my mind as the sky filled with frog images and their tormenting of their predators such as crows begins. Like all fiction for some reason people's houses don't ever have security screens or even flyscreens allowing these frogs to get up to their own fun including hovering TV watching in an old lady's house. Some of it doesn't completely make sense as we're missing maybe an illustration or two to tie them together such as why is a dog suddenly afraid of the frogs, what did they do, they aren't doing anything other than sitting on lillipads. Maybe if they'd picked up an animal from the zoo or something that the dog would be afraid of and were chasing the dog carrying that it would have made more sense. Also a sudden scene of police paddywagons, patrol cars, sniffer dogs and an ambulance after the lillipads stopped floating in the air, isn't explained at all. These two unexplained pieces of artwork don't detract much though from the overall enjoyment of the book. It is more of a collection of artwork than a story, but that artwork is of very high quality.

In Tuesday, Wiesner tells the humorous story of a group of frogs on a Tuesday evening. They are delighted when their lily pads suddenly begin to fly them around the countryside and nearby town. The frogs are seen by shocked animals and people, and are quite disappointed when their new found magic stops and they return to sitting in the pond. Wiesner uses very few words, and those only to tell the time of day, relying on his art to tell the story.

Wiesner's painting style is dreamy and soft, incorporating elements of the Impressionist style: soft lines, gentle colors, faded backgrounds. His anatomy (animal and human, alike) is realistic, as is the architecture and flora. Encompassing both those styles, however, is the surrealism of the story he is telling. The expressions on the various frog faces are especially delightful. The colors he uses clearly denote the time of day: blues and purples at night, with yellows and whites becoming more prominent as day breaks. He uses a variety of layouts: panels inside full page illustrations, double page illustrations that cross the gutter, and single page illustrations.

Tuesday is certainly appropriate for the intended age group. A preschooler would be able to "read" this story to herself, thanks to Wiesner's explicit expressions and easy-to-follow sequence of events. It is a joy to "read", regardless of age.

Wiesner's nearly wordless tale begins with a disclaimer on the book jacket that "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." An establishing scene prior to the title page depicts three frames in which frogs placidly enjoying their lily pads find themselves, surprisingly, beginning to levitate. Following the title page is a formal text arrangement that belies the surreality of this enchanting tale. Three large panels appear on the recto, zooming in on a turtle in a body of water being startled by the frogs who are happily flying overhead like UFOs. They continue their adventure throughout the night startling beast and man alike as they traverse alternations of double-page, full-bleed spreads that contain vignettes which highlight the antics of individual frogs; double-page spreads within frames; single-page spreads within frames; and framed panels. Alternations between pages' arrangement seem to be as irreverent and inexplicable as the frogs' adventure itself. The deep nighttime palette is rich in blues, and naturally, greens. Action proceeds principally from left to right, as if encouraging page-turns, capitalizing on the book's landscape orientation. Wiesner's primary guiding principle seems to be that of aesthetic delight and balance, optimizing the narrative's inherent sense of motion. The story's momentum is slowed three distinct times by an austere white page that announces the passage of time as the night progresses; similarly, the book concludes with one last announcement that the story continues the following Tuesday, depicting pigs in their own flight.

This is a beautifully done work. The story is made up of entirely pictures, beautifully done pictures, with great detail and haunting coloring. There are no words. In this case, to be quite frank, words simply are not needed. The story begins at dusk on Tuesday evening. The setting is a local pond. The frogs are all out setting on their lilly pads getting ready to do what frog in ponds have done for aeons. Then it happens. The magic begings. One by one, then in greater numbers, the lilly pads take off and begin flying, taking their frogs with them. What follows is a wonderful, surrealistic journey through the country side and small down. Each encounter, be it animal or human, is hilarious, from a bird to a Gramma setting in her chair and beyond. There are many adventures and many encounters. Still, no words!

This is one of those stories that is an ideal one to curl up with the little one, and go through it, page by page. Take the trip with the frogs! Now do be warned, the adult will actually have to (gasp) think, particularly with the younger ones, as the story needs to be filled in and discussed. What I like about this is that I can read it ten, twenty, thirty times, and come up with as many different versions of the story as numbers of reads. It simply never gets old. Now I note that some reviewers felt that this book may give their child night mares. I cannot imagine such a thing, but each parent knows their child (or should, anyway) and if they feel this will damage the little one in any way, well, they probably should not read it.

The art work in this one is of the highest quality. The author, no doubt, has a wonderful imagination and it show though with each turn of the page. The color and details are a treat to the eye and not only will the child enjoy the pictures, but amost any adult will also. I love the way this one ends too. The author takes us to the next Tuesday evening, about dusk, and.....well, you really need to read this one for your self.\

I cannot recommend this one highly enough.

David Wiesner's, almost wordless, book, "Tuesday," gives the reader a vivid story about a group of frogs who take their lily pads for a ride. Their lily pads fly through the air and through the neighborhood. The frogs' adventure ends when the sun begins to rise. However, the next Tuesday, another animal gets to take a similar adventure.

In the book, "Tuesday," David Wiesner uses watercolor on Arches paper for the illustrations. The illustrator uses dark colors to represent the time of night in this story. The dark colors also give the viewer a sense of mystery as they flip through the pages. However, the illustrator also uses light colors to represent the light from a house, the glow from a television set or the time of day. David Wiesner uses line to show the action of the frogs, by guiding the viewers' eye through the frogs' adventure on their lily pads. Wiesner's choice to make the frogs in the book, "Tuesday," makes the frogs seem friendly and happy.
My favorite aspect of the illustration was that color. The light and dark differences found throughout the book made the story seem very real, even though the plot is very, "magical." The use of blues and grays make the frogs flying through the air seem mysterious. While the fluorescent lights of the kitchen give a very drastic change to the frogs flying in the night outside. I also think that it was very cute for the frog to be waving at the man in the kitchen. I think that is a minor detail that a child will most likely pick up on and appreciate.
The lighting of the television room was another favorite for me. I like how the artist let the glow of the television shadow the frogs and the old woman. I enjoyed the fact that the frogs made themselves at home with the remote control and the cat looking on, in the background.
I think this is a book that a child would definitely enjoy to, "read," especially since they do not have to read. The child is free to let their imagination do the storytelling.

Tuesday is the most imaginative picture book that I have ever seen. It is a wordless fantasy of people, animals, and plants that allows you to supply your own story. As such, it will provide endless opportunities for you and your child to entertain one another. What really is going on? What does it mean? What will happen next Tuesday?
The book is illustrated very much like a graphic novel (a series of comic books bound together in softcover form, if you haven't seen one) but without words. The book does have a few indicators of time and day of the week, that provide the minimal connection to reality needed to launch the story into space.
The images here are very whimsical. Frogs fly on lily pads in formation like the Blue Angels, and create lots of unexpected fun. The book is most interesting when you see what happens on the second Tuesday. How about the third? You'll have to use your imagination for that one.
This book deserves its Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustrations. In no other book that I can think of do the illustrations carry the story. The book uses vibrant colors, done in a low-key way. Stylistically, it is a take-off on the science fiction and super hero genres in pictures.
You will be laughing out loud when you see what the frogs are up to. You will also enjoy the visual puns on textless pages.
Where else can pictures tell the story? Have you ever engaged in pantomimes, shadow puppets, or charades with your child? If you haven't, this would be a good time to introduce those enjoyable games.
Imagination can take you anywhere you want!

From the simple title, you would expect David Weisner’s Tuesday to be a simple tale. However, this story is everything but simple. Weisner starts the book with a beautiful scene of a pond. As the pictures progress, he zooms you in closer and closer to the scene. Suddenly you notice a turtle on a log looking up curiously at the sky. When you flip the page you suddenly realize what the turtle was looking at. FROGS... but not frogs you see everyday. These frogs are lifting off the pond on their Lilly pad saucers, looking almost like alien spacecraft’s! Throughout the book you follow the surprised, but extremely happy and excited frogs throughout their journey through the nearby sleeping neighborhood, surprising everyone and everything in their path! This story is so captivating because of the perspective it’s told from. Throughout the book you feel as if you are flying with the frogs! The pictures show houses far below as you fly through the night sky next to birds and through clouds. However the real excitement comes at the end of the book when we move on to the following Tuesday... what will fly next?

There's a reason that David Wiesner won the Caldecott Medal for Tuesday -- the book is simple and straightforward in it's approach to conveying the wonder of those mysteries we all know lurk just out of sight. As kids, we all know that there is more going on than we see, whether its the tooth fairy, Santa or the Easter Bunny - and Tuesday helps us all re-imagine how one of those wondrous times must have played out.

Fair warning -- there are few words in the book - so be prepared to narrate (or let your kids do the story telling) as you page through the excellent visuals that lay out the story. All of our kids have loved this book -- I'm sure yours will as well.

In the inside of the cover, Wiesner claims these events actually happened one Tuesday and... "all those in doubt are reminded that there is always another Tuesday." Beginning at 8:00pm, we see a three-part picture of a pond that changes perspective to focus on an alarmed turtle. Frogs on lilypads have taken flight and begin to chase after birds, intimidate a dog and confuse a man eating midnight snack. As morning approaches, the frogs return to their pond, leaving their lilypads and the curious detectives behind. The story ends with the words, "next Tuesday" and the shadow of a flying pig.
I've used this book in primary classrooms. It is a very cute story with only a few words. It also provides a wonderful opportunity for children to tell or write their own words. This enables students who cannot read yet to engage in a literate activity.
Why 5 stars?:
This book tells a cute fantasy story with very few words. It lends itself to having children make up their own text, which will support their emerging literacy skills. The illustrations are incredibly lifelike and it is no wonder it won a Caldecott.

I discovered this classic over a decade ago when working on my Master's. One of my required classes was a course in children's literature and it turned out to be my favorite. Having long been an avid reader, I was reintroduced to forgotten pleasures and presented with new (at that time) works that were totally fascinating.
"Tuesday" is in the latter category. It is short on prose but makes up for it with engrossing illustrations. The minimum of words allows the "reader" to create a different script with each visit.
My three-year-old niece "eats" the book up every time that either her mom, her grandfather, or even her dotting uncle takes a shine to pull it off the shelf and share it with her. Our respective interpretations of the pictures are limitless, making this a book that will live long after others have faded into obscurity.
Even the book's end allows the child to ponder the events of "Wednesday" and even hypothesize about the events of subsequent days.
Any book that plays on a child's natural tendency to dream is a winner.

Many great things can be communicated without words and this book is an utter proof. Lotus and frogs have been spiritual symbols in Eastern culture and Haiku tradition(Basho: At the ancient pond/A frog jumps into/ The sound of water) and they have taken central stage in this magical and good-humored book. I was excited to share this book with my children and it turned out they alredy read it and had much to say about this book. "We love TUESDAY! First the frogs are flying. Then the pigs start flying." My son quickly went to his favorite part where the dog chased one frog and ran away when he saw a whole army of frogs coming. He made special sound effects, laughed out loud with his sister and ended up doing his book report on it. TUESDAY is a book that will give inspirations to readers of all ages; a fantastic book that you can't miss!

While Aladdin had his magic carpet, one Tuesday night around 8 o'clock, a group of frogs flew through the air on their lily pads. In Tuesday (Houghton Mifflin 1991) a wordless picture book by Dave Wiesner, flying frogs get into all sorts of mischief as they float away from their marsh and into a nearby town. They scare a man eating a late night snack, sail through open windows and push buttons on a T.V. remote with their long pink tongues. Is this phenomenon a new way of amphibian life, or is there just something special about Tuesday?
Wiesner's ability to tell a tale of fantasy and wit with only the use of a few mere captions is truly remarkable. His blue, grey and green watercolor illustrations evoke a strong sense of magic and mystery, with the reader always wanting to know what those frogs will do next. While flying, the frogs themselves are reminiscent of Jabba the Hut, portrayed with lazy eyes and plenty of skin folds, and the images of humans and background landscapes are always in sharp contrast to the frogs. Wiesner's tale is both engaging and fun, without even a single "ribbit".

From the very first illustration I was drawn in. I kept wanting to stare at the frogs to figure out what they were thinking. It was obvious they were having a great time as they rode their lily pads throughout the night. Wiesner's style of illustration invites children to put their own stories to these wordless pictures. Wiesner's books do tend to lean towards older children even if they are wordless. I think seven and up would like this book.
Would I recommend this book? YES. it fires the imagination.

On a Tuesday evening, at around eight, our eyes hone in on a body of water. It's a pond, or maybe a swamp? It's dusk and a turtle is sitting on a log, looking up. Above him are frogs, thousands of frogs, floating through the summer air on lily pads. In David Wiesner's picture book Tuesday (Clarion Books, 1991), we get to follow these frogs as they fly through the night. On their journey they scare away a flock of birds, have a close encounter with a clothesline, bewilder a man eating a sandwich, and chase away a dog. They even pause and watch TV as an elderly woman dozes in her easy chair. But just when you think the frogs will spend the rest of their days soaring, we realize their magic is just as fleeting as the night sky. We are also wondering if Tuesday nights are always magical, always filled with surprises. David Wiesner's illustrations are only broken up by three pages of text, which are used only to indicate what time it is. These pages help push the story forward and inject a bit of tension into a tale that might have otherwise become clunky and static. David Wiesner's artistry is brilliantly displayed on every page as he uses water colors to not only recreate the lights and shadows of nighttime, but show the magical frogs doing things that are decidedly un-frog like. They use their slimy tongues to wield a TV remote, smile mischievously, and wear laundry like capes as they fly through the air. The greatest strength of this book is Wiesner's ability to appeal to a wide audience. It's the kind of book that adults and children will enjoy reading, the kind of book that is unforgettable because it is so beautiful, humorous, and imaginative.

When my dad disappeared into Waldenbooks for nearly half an hour, I went in search. Hunting through his usual haunts (Sci Fi, Sports), I was a bit shocked to find him tucked away next to a rack of rack of Dr. Seuss books. In his hand was an open copy of "Tuesday," in which he was thoroughly engrossed. As I watched, he shut the book and took it over to the cashier. When the man recommended it highly, my dad stammered, "Umm, it looks like something the kids might like." I'm 19; my sister's 16. We out grew picture books quite a few grades ago.

So after weeks of mercilessly teasing Dad about buying a picture book, my sister and I finally snuck a look at the thing. And promptly became fans. The book can be read in less than five minutes, but it *should* be poured over for hours. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful and the story is slyly playful. Get it and read it immediately--even if you have to pretend it's for your kids.

P.S. X-Philes, take note: all the action takes place at 11:21...

If high-flying, mischievous frogs were an everyday occurrence, the mysterious Tuesday by David Wiesner would not exist. In Tuesday (Clarion Books, 1991), the author writes that some magical event occurs every Tuesday and in this particular book, readers are treated to the puzzling case of adventurous frogs. One of the marvelous watercolor illustrations depicts dozens of frogs hovering on lily pads in a sleeping (and unaware) woman's house, entranced by the glowing light of the television. Curiously, Wiesner omits the child character found in his previous works, and readers looking to identify with the story may have to look elsewhere. The author demands creativity from his readers of this Caldecott Medal-winning text, and he expects his audience to construct their own text. Since Tuesday is such a clear indication of Wiesner's success in literature, readers will gladly look forward to his next clever and inventive book with dream-like illustrations.

David Wiesner once again captures the imagination of his audience with his breathtaking illustrations in the picture book, Tuesday, the story of a frog invasion that happens during the twilight hours on a Tuesday evening. The front jacket of the book offers the frame, and nearly all of the text, stating that "The events recorded here are verified by an undisclosed source to have happened somewhere, U.S.A. on Tuesday." Children's imaginations will be tugged in this inventive possibility of what happens in the outside world while they are tucked away into bed: frogs soar from their pond on hovering Lilly pads past a late-night snacker's kitchen window, tangle through the hanging laundry, and most charmingly, stop to watch television with an unknowing old woman snoozing under her afghan. By the end of the story, readers will believe that anything can happen after the sun goes down - that even pigs can fly.

Wiesner's watercolor illustrations live up to their reputation of being dreamy, inspired, fanciful, and original, and are strong enough to carry a story with only time stamps to guide the flow. Through his paintings, Wiesner is able to bring floating frogs to life and gift them with human emotions such as surprise, mischief, contentment, and fear. Viewers will delight with the way perception and point of view shifts and the world is tilted to be examined up-close as well as far away. Wiesner layers slices of paintings on top of full page illustrations to keep the eye continually moving and constantly absorbing the vivid blue-hued colors of dusk in this comic book style montage that truly lives up to the genre of picture books.

The richly hued and elaborately detailed watercolor illustrations by David Wiesner effectively serve the dual purpose of being the main vehicle for the story, and captivating and entertaining the reader with humorous vignettes. Tuesday is a fanciful story about the mischief that occurs one Tuesday night when frogs get an unexpected surprise as they discover the ability to float in the air on their lily pads.

This sturdy hardcover edition doesn't even contain as many words as the number of double-page illustrations that Wiesner uses to tell his tale. The story begins before the title page with three illustrations set in panels separated and framed by white space, giving it the feel of a graphic novel. Wiesner continues to use graphic novel-like panels to tell the story, occasionally giving the reader a close-up view of the action with a picture-in-picture effect.

The tranquility and realism of Wiesner's rural, small town backgrounds makes the spectacle of flying frogs, and the mischief they make, particularly humorous. Wiesner is very careful in his use of color to indicate the passage of time, a technique that is especially important when the text consists primarily of infrequent updates on the time-of-day.

Although some adult readers may be uncomfortable with the lack of text in this story, the whimsical details of the illustrations could inspire some imaginative conversation about what's happening on each page. The pre-reader will have ample opportunity to interact with this story by explaining what they see in the illustrations. This book is recommended for ages 2 - 6.

Anyone who first reads the book title would wonder what happens on Tuesday. As you turn over the first page, you will find the award-winning illustrator David Wiesner's wordless storytelling irresistible. On this tranquil Tuesday night in the mix of rich purples, blues and greens, a number of bloated frogs hover over a swamp, riding lotus leaves across a serene town. They are like a flying fleet of night raiders, startling the birds on the wire, arousing a sandwich-eating man in the kitchen, taking over the TV remote control at a sleeping old woman's house and chasing a big watchdog. As much fun as they enjoy, the frogs have to return to the pond when day breaks, leaving hundreds of lotus leaves on the ground for the police to investigate. The mystery continues with the flying pigs on another Tuesday night.

Winner of the 1992 Caldecott Medal, Tuesday is full of miraculous surprises. The beautiful and delicate illustrations prove again a picture is worth a thousand words. Readers will feel like sleepwalking in a silent yet thrilling journey with the airborne frogs. Reread is also fantastic.

Who says Tuesday is just another day of the week? According to David Wiesner's picture book, Tuesday (Clarion Books, 1991), strange and mysterious things can happen on Tuesdays, especially at night. The book follows a group of frogs as they miraculously float in the air on their lily pads. Just as surprised as the turtle and birds watching them, the frogs use this opportunity to explore places they have never seen before. Their journey includes seeing a man eat a sandwich through his kitchen window, getting caught in some drying laundry, and watching television at a woman's house. Unfortunately, their excitement ends when daylight arrives and their lily pads can no long float in the air. What magical voyage will await the animal world next Tuesday? Although the story is unique and entertaining, the main draw to the book is the illustrations. Because it is almost completely wordless, the book relies on its pictures to tell the story. While the illustrations are quite telling in themselves, they also inspire a great deal of imagination on the part of the reader. Weisner's decision to include smaller pictures on top of some of his full-page illustrations only adds to the book's appeal. Tuesday is a wonderful book that is sure to keep children and adults entertained.

Love this book! Beautiful illustrations. From a literacy standpoint, I would have preferred if there was a little bit more text, as once you get past the first few pages it is really all pictures with no text. But I do think it is a good book to have, and the illustrations are very unique.

My boyfriend and I have "read" this book several times together. How's that? We find a new favorite frog or interesting frog antic every time we read it....I cannot thank my three year old neice, now five years old, enough for asking me to read it to her two years ago over the holidays at my mom's (grammy's) house. I bought the hardcover book the next day and it has only gotten better and better every time!
In the words of my neice in response to the first time I half asked/half read the words--Next Tuesday 7:58pm--OH NO! WHEN PIGS FLY! GRAMMY IS GONNA BE RICH!!!

My 6-year-old thought this was about the funniest thing he'd ever seen. He had a ball looking at all the different frogs and giving them dialogue. I'm getting this for him for Christmas -- and a copy for my 4-year-old nephew.

Folks, please don't downgrade a book because it was age-inappropriate for YOUR child. The fact that it wasn't right for your baby or toddler doesn't mean that it isn't a good book. Hold off and show this book to your kids when they're a little older and able to appreciate whimsy and fantasy. Chances are, they (and you) will enjoy it a lot more then.

Tuesday is not a bedtime story. It is an afternoon story because you have to make it up on your own and you don't want to be too tired. It is a book with only 18 words and each pictures is equal to 1000 words. If you have a wild imagination this book is for you. In the book frogs can fly. Frogs can hop from the city to the countryside. So, much unrealistic stuff can happen. A two year old can read it, but older kids will enjoy it too. So fly over to the store and get it!

David Wiesner's brilliant children's book Tuesday has long been one of my favorites illustrated books. Who else could bring such fantastic whimsy and realism to this genre. What makes the complexity of Wiesner's story all the more amazing is that he tells the tale only through images. As in some of his other works, there is no text...and yet the story is sweet, funny and joyous. I highly recommend this and his other book for folks who love art and imagination...He's right up there with Sendak and Van Allsburg!

What an absolutely beautiful book! I had seen it before when I was a child, but I was still in awe of the magnificent colors and shapes. The one thing I found most interesting about this book was that it used very few words. The illustrations were so powerful that not many words were needed to tell the story. That, in my mind, is the material for a wonderful children's picture book. It can be enjoyed by all ages, because a very young child could understand it without even reading it, and it's also good for older children to use in a discussion.

The characterization was very clear. You could recognize the frogs even by only their shadows, so I would say that Wiesner was very consistent with their profiles. The perspective was also easy to see. Some of the book is from a bird's eye view, and you're looking down at the frogs, but in some pictures it's almost like you're flying with them, as if you're one of them, and you see the sky and houses below. The backgrounds in the illustrations are interesting to look at as well. On the cover you see the houses drawn in exquisite detail in the distance, and you see the dog in front of one of them who appears later in the story. In the scene where they're in the old lady's house watching TV, you can see her cat in the background looking mighty angry, and on the page where the police are investigating both the dog and cat show up again. It's like another side story within the main one.

Color was another outstanding element. Wiesner did a wonderful job displaying the difference in night and day in the pictures. That is very important, especially to young children, to show the distinctions. In all the pictures where the frogs are outside, the sky and everything surrounding them is dark. When they're inside, or pass by something that's inside a house, there are bright colors. Like I said, there isn't much text in the book, but I think that makes it all the more magical. In the inside front cover, there's a little bit of background story for your to take and laugh about, and then the first page contains a beginning quote, "Tuesday evening, around eight." The only are text are times. This lets children make assumptions about the story, and really think about what they're seeing. It would be a good time for a teacher to focus on illustrations specifically in a classroom. The children would be motivated to draw their own pictures without focusing on the text.

The illustrations were all done in watercolor. This makes some of the illustrations bold and "solidly intense," and others "watery and fluid-looking." Wiesner uses both. His backgrounds are more fluid, while his up-close pictures are very delicately painted. All his illustrations are supposed to be "in motion" or "animated," and he does a great job of this too. The book plays out like a movie. David Wiesner is a very talented man, and I can definitely see why this book won the Caldecott award in 1992.

The power of imagination gives the most mundane of animals a flight of fancy. One Tuesday night, just after dusk, a group of frogs find the power of flight and soar over a sleeping town on their lilypads. Their expressive faces will enchant you as they encounter trees, laundry, and people!
This book is AWESOME. It is a simple "flight of the imagination", using maybe 6 words in all, but utilizing beautifully rendered illustrations. The tranquil watercolors show a fuzzy midnight world with an enchanted feel to it. The frogs are so cute, and their faces show hilarious human expression. This is simple, but beautiful!
This book would be best for younger kids to "make believe" to, or for older teens/adults, who can really appreciate the images. It can whisk you away on your own lilypad into the sweetest realms of imagination, into a world where frogs fly!

What's all this business about children and teachers? Okay, sure--but this book can be enjoyed by anyone, any age. I've given this book to several friends, and they always rock with laughter as they page through it. Except for a few words at the start and finish, the story is told in the pictures. You can zip gleefully through the merry story or spend some time delighting in the details of the charming illustrations. So yeah, buy it for the kids--but pick up a copy for yourself, too.

This was a wonderful book! The illustrations are beautifully drawn, full of surprises. I bought it for my nephew, but his parents loved it just as much as he did. My nephew's first reaction was "Frogs can't do that!" but he was delighted. On first impulse you race through to see what happens, then turn back to the beginning to see what you've missed. Every "read" yields more. This book is a quick transport to a realm of daydreams and magical Tuesday evenings.

The book Tuesday by David Wiesner is sure to become a favorite of everyone who reads it! Who could forget the story of the fat frogs on lily pads that fly throughout the town and wreck havoc on the "normal" lives of people? The intelligent amphibians in this story bring such joy to readers as they laugh their way through Tuesday evening's adventure.

There are no words in this story, so even the smallest child can receive the highest entertainment and benefit that was designed as the purpose of this book. The colors throughout the pages are the entire feature of the story since there are no words (not really) to tell the tale. Wiesner's blues and greens give us the wonder and amazement we need to read the book over and over again.

As the book ends, readers are left with a feeling of excitement and hope as they await the next journey of the frogs through the unknowledgeable town. The book, upon being read over and over again, gives the sense of yet another flight of the fat frogs.

TUESDAY, by David Wiesner
Book Review
Who will be next? Weisner uses no words, which allows readers to develop their own opinions about what exactly is happening. The book is a vivid display of color and detail painted in watercolor. Both children and adults can experience fun and amazement by reading this picture book. As dusk becomes night, something strange happens to animals in this particular town. The story opens and frogs begin to float above their pond, perched upon their lily pads, like genies on flying carpets. As the frogs rise out of the water, they fly in a flock, raiding the town while watchful eyes are asleep. The amphibious creatures fly through linen hanging out to dry and an elderly woman's living room while she is asleep. Then something strange happens to them at dawn. They can no longer soar above and around the town and are reduced to hopping back to their pond without the aid of flight. The following night, another animal is able to fly and see the town in their own new light, once darkness falls.

I think David (author) enjoys leaving a point to his readers to think , like a big lie, you can believe or not. It's your choice.
In this book, at first I though "Frogs" could fly (because next Tuesday pigs flew). But after 4-5 times of reading, I though lily pads flew.
And I think the answer is on the first page (The book name)... there's a lotus picture. It's like his guide.
What do you think?

This small book for children, which won the 1992 Caldecott Medal for best illustrations in a book for children, essentially has no words, a tale being told solely by pictures. It's a fun story about an unusual Tuesday night, starting at dusk, in which frogs discover that they can fly around town on lilypads (an have fun in so doing). Even adults have a hard time putting the book down!

I am a student at West Virginia State College, and I was required to read a Caldecott Award winning book for my summer Childrens Literature course. I chose the 1992 Caldecott Medal winner, Tuesay. Without knowing anything about the book I went to the public library and checked it out. To my surprise it was a picture book. The pictures in this book are amazing. They are so realistic and the thought of flying frogs really interests kids. This is a beautifully illustrated book and I would highly recommend this book for children of all ages. All you need is a great imagination to interested in this book. This book rightly bears the Caldecott Medal. I would like to thank my stupendous teacher Roger Samples for this fun and exciting assignment.

Frogs lift off from their ponds, clinging to lily pads. Floating through town, who knows what mischief they will get themselves into? You have to love those TV watching, dog chasing, floating Tuesday frogs.

Even without words, this book comes alive. Vivid, lovely illustrations make this a classic children's picture book, guaranteed to amuse all ages. The clever, playful frogs and their adventures are fun to explore, and you can find something to laugh at on each page-- whether it be the hilarious expressions, or even the unawareness of the humans. I never tire of flipping through this book, for a laugh, a smile, and a nice 'read'.