Overview: Tuesday rolls around this week and you may think it is an ordinary unassuming, no frills day but then something happens once the sun goes down... Tuesday night the frogs start behaving out of the ordinary traveling around the quiet neighborhood giving some animals and people a shock. The frogs enjoy simple amusements as they are out all night and until the wee hours of the next morning. Once they have returned home they leave the town dumbfounded in their tracks. Little does the neighborhood know a new surprise awaits them next Tuesday.
Wiesner, D. (1991). Tuesday. Boston, MA: Clarion Books.
Little Library Review: This book is such a funny, smart, and seizing picture book! It is almost wordless except for the time mentioned a few times through out the book. The frogs and their unexpected, almost alien like invasion of the neighborhood is everything in this funny picture book. Because the book is basically wordless and all of the story line is played out through the pictures, this book reaches all ages at different levels. Some younger readers will make noticings as the frogs flying throughout the houses and yard and more experienced reader may notice a little more of the details of the story. It is guaranteed kids will be surprised and laugh and the absurd amphibians as they read TUESDAY.
Other Professional Reviews: One of the best pictures in this book is on one of the first pages. There, a turtle cowers in its shell as black eyed, pupil-less frogs rise on their lily pads out of the water. The frogs descend, so to speak, on a nearby suburb, and proceed to wreak some minor havoc. They disturb a man pausing to eat a late night sandwich. They disturb laundry and enter old ladies’ homes to watch a little telly. And they take a great amount of pleasure in scaring a dog that would undoubtedly eat them if it had the chance. As the book ends, the frogs are relieved of their otherworldly powers and hop back to the swamps, leaving only their lily pads behind. The next Tuesday, at the same time, we’re given a hint of how a more porcine animal will handle such unexpected flight.
Bird, E. (2012). Top 100 picture books #24: Tuesday by David Wiesner. School Library Journal. Retrieved from http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/11/top-100-picture-books-24-tuesday-by-david-wiesner/
Using it in the Library 📖: Activities or lessons that can be done with this book are a inferencing and drawing conclusions. This book is majority wordless so readers must really make up the words to what is happening as they turn the pages. Copies of one or several pages can be made and students can create the words that would "tell" the story of what is happening. If students were given different pages a class book can be create once each part was
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