The Three Pigs David Wiesner
Elizabeth Kerscher
S571 - Picture Book Paper
Introducing the Illustrator It’s easy to tell a story with words - in fact, people do it on a daily basis. When you restrict the definition of story-telling to being only captivating stories, you reduce the number of people who can tell one. Now require that the captivating story have amazing illustrations to go along with it and you’ve narrowed the author pool down to a handful of people, with David Wiesner among them - as evidenced by his Caldecott Medal book The Three Pigs (2001). Wiesner takes it a step further, though, winning Caldecott Honor Medals with Free Fall (1988) and Sector 7 (1999) and Caldecott Medals with Tuesday (1991) and Flotsam (2006) - each one with only pictures and no words …show more content…
According to the copyright pages, Flotsam, Sector 7, and Hurricane were all “executed in watercolor.” The materials are not noted in Free Fall, but the similarities to the previously mentioned tiles indicate that it was also painted with watercolors. Wiesner used a wider variety of materials in The Three Pigs, including watercolor, gouache, colored inks, pencil, and colored pencil, and in Art & Max (2010), using acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and India ink. The variety in the last two titles helps to tell the story by creating different environments and styles for the characters to …show more content…
Moje. "A Conversation With David Wiesner: 1992 Caldecott Medal Winner." The Reading Teacher 46.4 (1993): 284-89. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.
Giorgis, Cyndi, and Nancy J. Johnson. "Interview with the 2002 Caldecott Medal Winner, David Wiesner." The Reading Teacher 56.4 (2003): 400-04. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.
Tunnell, Michael O., and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.
Wiesner, David. Art & Max. Boston: Clarion, 2010. Print.
Wiesner, David. "Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech Of Flotsam, Jetsam, and Another Caldecott." Children and Libraries 5.2 (2007): 10-12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.
Wiesner, David. Flotsam. New York: Clarion, 2006. Print.
Wiesner, David. Free Fall. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1988. Print.
Wiesner, David. Hurricane. New York: Clarion, 1990. Print.
Wiesner, David. Sector 7. New York: Clarion, 1997. Print.
Wiesner, David. The Three Pigs. New York: Clarion, 2001. Print.
Wiesner, David. Tuesday. New York: Clarion, 1991.
S571 - Picture Book Paper
Introducing the Illustrator It’s easy to tell a story with words - in fact, people do it on a daily basis. When you restrict the definition of story-telling to being only captivating stories, you reduce the number of people who can tell one. Now require that the captivating story have amazing illustrations to go along with it and you’ve narrowed the author pool down to a handful of people, with David Wiesner among them - as evidenced by his Caldecott Medal book The Three Pigs (2001). Wiesner takes it a step further, though, winning Caldecott Honor Medals with Free Fall (1988) and Sector 7 (1999) and Caldecott Medals with Tuesday (1991) and Flotsam (2006) - each one with only pictures and no words …show more content…
According to the copyright pages, Flotsam, Sector 7, and Hurricane were all “executed in watercolor.” The materials are not noted in Free Fall, but the similarities to the previously mentioned tiles indicate that it was also painted with watercolors. Wiesner used a wider variety of materials in The Three Pigs, including watercolor, gouache, colored inks, pencil, and colored pencil, and in Art & Max (2010), using acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and India ink. The variety in the last two titles helps to tell the story by creating different environments and styles for the characters to …show more content…
Moje. "A Conversation With David Wiesner: 1992 Caldecott Medal Winner." The Reading Teacher 46.4 (1993): 284-89. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.
Giorgis, Cyndi, and Nancy J. Johnson. "Interview with the 2002 Caldecott Medal Winner, David Wiesner." The Reading Teacher 56.4 (2003): 400-04. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.
Tunnell, Michael O., and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.
Wiesner, David. Art & Max. Boston: Clarion, 2010. Print.
Wiesner, David. "Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech Of Flotsam, Jetsam, and Another Caldecott." Children and Libraries 5.2 (2007): 10-12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.
Wiesner, David. Flotsam. New York: Clarion, 2006. Print.
Wiesner, David. Free Fall. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1988. Print.
Wiesner, David. Hurricane. New York: Clarion, 1990. Print.
Wiesner, David. Sector 7. New York: Clarion, 1997. Print.
Wiesner, David. The Three Pigs. New York: Clarion, 2001. Print.
Wiesner, David. Tuesday. New York: Clarion, 1991.