#david wiesner

[uwmspeccoll]

Ray Bradbury Birthday Anniversary!

On this day, August 22 in 1920, the great American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born just over the Wisconsin border in  Waukegan, Illinois. He would go on to become what The New York Times called "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream," with such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). He died in 2012 at the venerable age of 91.

To memorialize Ray Bradbury’s birth, we present some images from a 1983 collection of stories and poems related to the author’s earliest childhood and life-long fascination with dinosaurs in Dinosaur Tales, published by Bantam Books. The collection includes the short stories "Besides A Dinosaur, Whatta Ya Wanna Be When You Grow Up?" (1983), "The Fog Horn" (1951), "Tyrannosaurus Rex," originally published as “The Prehistoric Producer” (1962), Bradbury’s classic time-travel, “butterfly effect” story "A Sound of Thunder" (1952), and a new poetic collaboration with the legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson, "What If I Said: The Dinosaur's Not Dead?" Other illustrations in this book are by William Stout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith and David Wiesner. Click on the images for the attributions.

Happy Birthday Anniversary, Ray Bradbury!

View a post on Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.

View other Milestone Monday posts.

#Milestone Monday #birthdays #Ray Bradbury #August 22 #Dinosaur Tales #Bantam Books #illustrated books #Gahan Wilson #William Stout #Moebius #Kenneth Smith #david wiesner #science fiction #fantasy #dinosaurs

[lowcountry-gothic]

Cover art by David Wiesner for The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

[Text ID: Seven paintings used as book covers for C.S. Lewis’ septology, The Chronicles of Narnia. The first painting is for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and shows two girls, Lucy and Susan, hugging the mane of Aslan the lion as he stares straight forward at the viewer in front of a starry night sky. 

The second painting, for Prince Caspian, shows the hands and forearms of a boy, clad in chain mail, as he grips a sword in front of flames and a black background. 

The third painting is for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and depicts Eustace in the form of a scaly grey dragon with a sharp ridge along its back and two long horns and pointed ears, lying on his belly under low trees or bushes, with smoke rising from his nostrils and tears falling from his eyes. Between the huge claws of one of his arms, crossed below his head, stands Reepicheep, a grey mouse with a sword in his hand, a belt across his waist, and a red-feathered circlet on his head. The mouse looks calm, patient, and comforting.

The fourth painting, for The Silver Chair, shows a green serpent with sharp teeth and long billowing streamers issuing from its head, coiled around a young blond man clad in black with gold accents, who we see only from his back. The young man, Prince Rilian, is holding the serpent away from him by its neck and trying to aim a sword at it, as they are both surrounded by green mist. 

The fifth painting, for The Horse and His Boy, shows two horses (Bree and Hwin) and their human riders (Shasta and Aravis, respectively) galloping in terror, parallel to each other; one very close to the viewer, one far away towards the horizon. The nearer horse is grey with white spots, the farther one solid brown. It is night and large clouds tower over them as well as a distant forest. 

The sixth painting, for The Magician's Nephew, is a close-up view of a shiny silver apple being grasped by a young boy's (Diggory’s) hand, his own reflection reaching out towards it dimly visible in the apple's surface, while behind the leaves and pink flowers that surround the apple, a woman with a white face and gold crown stares coldly towards the boy and the viewer. 

In the final painting, for The Last Battle, a white unicorn, Jewel, looks sadly toward the viewer as he's surrounded by grey clouds under a starry night sky. He wears a gold necklace and has a pointed beard below the end of his snout. /End ID]

#art #david wiesner #book covers #books #narnia #c.s. lewis #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #prince caspian #the voyage of the dawn treader #the silver chair #the horse and his boy #the magician's nephew #the last battle

[petalpetal]

Artist I Like Series

David Wiesner 1956-???? an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books including some that tell stories without words. As an illustrator he has won three Caldecott Medals recognizing the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children" and he was one of five finalists in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available for creators of children's books.

#David Wiesner #illustrator #male artist #american #children's book illustrator #artist I like #art history #art #art inspo #fave #petal talks

[readtilyoudie]

FISH GIRL

#fish girl #david wiesner #donna jo napoli #fantasy #mermaids #middle grade

[thebeautifulbook]

TUESDAY written and illustrated by Donald Wiesner. (New York: Clarion, 1991)

In this ingenious and imaginative nearly wordless picture book, frogs in a pond lift off with their lily pads and fly to a nearby town. There they zoom through a woman’s living room as she dozes in a chair watching television, harass a dog frolicking in his yard, and distract a bathrobed citizen from his midnight snack. The unpredictable events of this particular Tuesday unfold before the reader with the precision and clarity of a silent movie. What will happen next Tuesday?

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #children’s book #year: 1991 #frogs frogs frogs #david wiesner #tuesday

[bizarrobrain]

Artist: David Wiesner

#David Wiesner #Octopus

[winzlownation]

🐸 #1324

#kidlitart #picturebooks #crayola #Tuesday #David Wiesner

[k-anon2023]

Butter sculpture of a fish in the style of David Wiesner --c 50

#ai generated #midjourney #david wiesner #fish #butter sculpture

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Ok, I just watched a video of that one frog book they use in Autism assessments (Tuesday I think?)

And I'm convinced that book is purposefully vague. What would they want me to say the book was about?

The frogs were flying, that's for sure. I can tell their happy while flying and upset when it magically stops in the morning??? But I don't get why??? That context is never provided.

I don't know how long ago, but several years ago, I watched this little animation of circles. No dialogue, no words, nothing. Just circles moving around the screen. And I perfectly understood what the story was. It was essentially a Rudolph the red nosed reindeer situation. Easily. Without any other context then moving. Circles.

But the frog book? Not a clue. Why are the leaves flying? What are the frogs' goals? Why did the leaves stop in the morning? Why are the police there? Genuinely, what is this story actually trying to communicate??? Cause it's not communicating anything but "frog fly durrrrr :P".

#galaxy rambles #autistic screeching #watch me post this and like #five people tell me “yep youre autistic alright thats a rlly autistic response” #just yall watch #tuesday david wiesner #autistic #autism #Note: im not taking an assessment; #I just wanted to look at the book cause I was curious about the things other Autistic people were saying about it

[nonsensology]

This was supposed to just be a rough sketch, but then I started getting really invested in it.

I hadn't initially intended to include so many picture book characters, but the nostalgia was overwhelming. Does anyone remember the animated short films produced by Weston Woods? My local library used to have a bunch of them on the Scholastic VHS tapes from the late 90s. (I know some shorts were released on the Children's Circle VHS tapes back in the 80s (🎶 Come on along! Come on along! Join the caravan!), and some were packaged in Sammy's Story Shop in 2008.)

Characters:

Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Peter, from The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats

Brother Bear and Sister Bear, from The Berenstain Bears series, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Pooh and Piglet, from the Winnie-the-Pooh books, by A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard

Owen, from Owen, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes.

Mouse, from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond

Louis, from The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White

Mr. Toad, from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, based on the illustrations by E. H. Shepard

Mr. Tumnus, from The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis

Pippi and Mr. Nilsson, from the Pippi Longstocking books, by Astrid Lindgren

Willy Wonka, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake

Matilda, from Matilda, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake (with an homage to the Mara Wilson movie)

Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, from Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie

Merlin and Archimedes, from The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White, based on the illustrations by Dennis Nolan

Pinocchio, from Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, based on the illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti

Alice, White Rabbit, and Cheshire Cat, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel

Rupert Bear, from the Rupert stories, created by Mary Tourtel and continued by Alfred Bestall, John Harrold, Stuart Trotter, and others.

Arthur Read, from the Arthur series, written and illustrated by Marc Brown

Tin Woodman and Scarecrow, from the Land of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum, based on the illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill

The Cat in the Hat, from The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss

a frog on a flying lily pad, from Tuesday, written and illustrated by David Wiesner

Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White

#children's books #children's literature #where the wild things are #the snowy day #berenstain bears #winnie the pooh #kevin henkes #if you give a mouse a cookie #e b white #the wind in the willows #pippi longstocking #the chronicles of narnia #roald dahl #peter pan #sword in the stone #pinocchio #rupert bear #arthur read #alice's adventures in wonderland #the wonderful wizard of oz #cat in the hat #david wiesner

[dduane]

Judging books by their covers

Having spent the morning reading the notes on this post (and reading them, and reading them...), I realized I really needed to get to grips with a piece of work I'd been avoiding.

Some of you may remember me mentioning that the Young Wizards website's longtime ISP went out of business suddenly in July, necessitating the site's hasty relocation to a new home. In the process a lot of its internal URLs ceased to operate correctly, meaning that files weren't displaying. (As I was quickly reminded when looking for the original David Wiesner art for So You Want To Be A Wizard at 01:30 last night.)

Anyway, I just wound up spending the day rescanning book covers for the Young Wizards publication history page, and was reminded of some favorites while getting the work done. (And a note for the interested: if there's any particular cover from an English-language edition of the YW books that interests you, or you think the sight of one might jog your memory somehow, that page is where you'll find the images. Use the tabs under the header image to take you through the history of publishers and artists.)

Meanwhile, being reminded of what happened to the covers for So You Want To... alone is both funny and a bit sobering. Styles change, formats change, art directors change. Sometimes the covers get a lot better, and sometimes they, uh, don't. Look at the difference in styles alone among these, for example.

Most of the time the writer gets to take what they're given, and like it. Sometimes, though, they get to give advice.

Here, for example, is one time that happened.

This is for the UK hardcover of the first of the Feline Wizards books. The artist, Mick Posen, is a cat person... and he insisted on having pictures of the cats who inspired the NY worldgating team before he started painting. Just look at these three, especially Rhiow there in the foreground. Is this a hero, or what? :)

Here's one that caused a little controversy.

The question of the day: Is Nita wearing anything? And if so, what?

The art won Greg Swearingen a silver Spectrum Award for that Deep Wizardry painting. But he and my then-editor on the series, Michael Stearns, apparently got into it a little regarding a conflict between the text and the necessities of painting a YA cover. If I remember correctly, I think Greg was holding out for "She's not wearing anything in the text in this situation, she just turned human again after changing back from being a whale, she shouldn't be wearing anything here!" and Michael was saying "But the parents, what if we freak out the parents...!" ...Eventually it seems like some kind of compromise was achieved. Swirly light = magic, or something. (shrug) Not my problem. It's a lovely cover.

About this one I have, well, mixed feelings. At this end of time, the art looks clunky. Yet this is also my first bestseller. When the SF Book Club published this omnibus, Support Your Local Wizard quickly set records as their single most-requested item of all time for new members just signing up. Its print run ran to more than 250,000 copies, and it remained constantly in print until the Book Club itself ended.

I've always been fond of this one for Deep Wizardry, and also of the one the artist, Neal McPheeters, did for the Dell Yearling and Dell mass market paperback editions of So You Want To... . There's a solid quality to both of them, but the second one in particular, that appeals to me.

(For those in the notes on that other post who reacted immediately to Kit's antenna: This is one of the reasons why it features—along with one of Nita's wands from the rowan tree Liused—on all the covers of the revised/updated Young Wizards New Millennium Editions. I've seen a lot of memories jogged by its appearance.)

...Do I have a favorite favorite one of all these covers? As usual, it's hard to pick. But I have to admit that I smile, at the moment, when looking at this one—Greg Swearingen’s art again—since in a couple of weeks it'll be the fortieth anniversary of So You Want To Be A Wizard's publication.

We'll see what the publisher does for the fiftieth. :)

#Young Wizards #Young Wizards series #covers

[dancing-mylife-away]

thank you @leothil for the unofficial tag bc i will take any opportunity to talk about books 😂 so here are 9 books i want to read this year!

a body of work: dancing to the edge and back by david hallberg. i've literally owned this book since the week it came out in 2017 but i still haven't read it 😅 idk why bc david hallberg is one of my all-time favorite ballet dancers so hopefully 2024 will be the year i finally read his memoir

illusions of camelot by peter boal. another ballet memoir that will hopefully come out in paperback this year so i can buy it. he's the current artistic director of PNB and former principal at NYCB (i think he was one of the last dancers selected for the company by balanchine) so anyway ballet books are My Thing

before you found me by michael robotham. the 4th cyrus haven book which has been my favorite mystery/suspense series since the first book came out

deus x by stephen mack jones. the 4th august snow book which is another suspense/thriller series i really enjoy

the second chance year by melissa wiesner

pointe of pride by chloe angyal. the sequel to pas de don't which was one of my favorite romance books i read last year. and angyal is a former ballet dancer so the ballet parts of the book are extremely accurate and well-written

the berry pickers by amanda peters

the undertow: scenes from a slow civil war by jeff sharlet

some shall break by ellie marney. the sequel to none shall sleep which i read a few years ago and loved!

tagging @crosbytoews @hockeyunfortunately @jackreichel @mistmarauder @murphybedard @endandblossom and anyone else who wants to do this!

#books #hannah's boring life

[geekysteven]

[Image description Text "When your favorite Earthling makes it through this season of Earth." Attached image is several humanoid, green aliens celebrating while watching a holographic display in the middle of their spaceship. Art by David Wiesner for the book Mr. Wuffles]

#aliens #image described #image description added #described images

[readtilyoudie]

FISH GIRL

#fish girl #david wiesner #donna jo napoli #fantasy #mermaids #middle grade

[thebeautifulbook]

FREE FALL written and illustrated by David Wiesner. (New York: Lothrop, 1988)

In a dream without words, a young boy takes off on a dazzling night flight to conquer dragons, rolamcastles, ad soar above the field of an uncharted land that looks strangely familiar.

*A Caldecott Honor Book

*An ALA Notable Children’s Book

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #vintage books #children’s book #free fall #david wiesner

[godzilla-reads]

Gargoyle Books for Grotesques

God Bless the Gargoyles by Dave Pilkey- A cute and thoughtful book on the history of gargoyles and their friendship with angels. It has nice art AND it rhymes!

2. Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Janetta Rebold Benton- A very nice book full of pictures of our favorite grotesques and gargoyles.

3. The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1) by Jonathan Stroud- A young boy, desperate to prove himself as a magician, secretly summons Bartimaeus, and compels the djinn to steal the Amulet of Samarkand.

4. The Gargoyle Overhead by Philippa Dowding-What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger? It’s not always easy, but thirteen-year-old Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle

5. Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting and David Wiesner- Moody, charcoal-powder drawings dramatize a tale of the secret life of gargoyles.

6. Song of the Gargoyle by Zilpha Keatley Snyder- A strange sound awakens thirteen-year-old Tymmon in the dead of night. In a blink of an eye his father, the court jester of Austerneve, is mysteriously kidnapped and the terrified boy must slip away secretly to avoid capture himself.Hiding in the dreaded forest nearby, Tymmon is adopted by a huge, furry, dog-like creature--a gargoyle--who has the loyalty of a dog and the fearsome powers of an enchanted being.

7. The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian- Looking for a new start, immortal alchemist Zoe Faust stumbles upon a gargoyle who needs her help.

8. The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity by Michael Camille- Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. 

9. The Gargoyle on the Roof by Jack Prelutsky- I love Prelutsky's books and this one has 17 10. poems you'll love.

10. Anthony and the Gargoyle by Jo Ellen Bogart and Maja Kastelic- A boy befriends a baby gargoyle in this magical wordless story in graphic-novel style.

#godzilla reads #gargoyle books #gargoyles #grotesques #gargoyles and grotesques #book recs #book list #reading list #booklr #book blog #book blurb #booklife #booklover