Tuesday by David Wiesner (Wordless Book)

The story begins Tuesday around 8 o’ clock in the evening. The night sky is quiet and the toads start flying around on giant lily pads. Hundreds and hundreds of toads are flying around in the dark on their lily pads, running into clotheslines and birds in the sky. Several toads find their way into a house through an open chimney and make themselves comfortable in front of the television. After wreaking hours of havoc the flying toads finally returned back to their pond once the sun began to rise. The next morning investigators discover the leftover lily pads from the toads’ wild evening, and tried to make sense of the weird scenes. Next Tuesday the toads stayed in their ponds, however, the pigs from the barn decide to take off on their own flight. Tuesday by David Wiesner is a wordless book depicting the adventures of toads and pigs as they fly through the sky. Although the illustrations were amazingly detailed and very realistic, I didn’t like the way the book lacked a story line or problem. Children would enjoy the way the book is just pictures, which would let their imagination come up with its own story.