«Tuesday» of David Wiesner

David Wiesner is known for his surreal, wordless picture books. One of his most celebrated works is “Tuesday”.

On a Tuesday evening, around eight o’clock, a group of frogs suddenly takes off from their swamp and soar over the town, flying into houses and scaring people around — only to return to their usual lives at dawn. The last spread shows the events of the following Tuesday evening, this time it is pigs that take to the skies — well the story is over when the pigs fly.

Wiesner dedicated the book to his teacher, the artist Tom Sgouros. The following year, David received his first Caldecott Medal for “Tuesday”. To date, he has won the award three times — only Marcia Brown had previously won that many.

In 2002, the book underpinned an animated film, a part of Paul McCartney’s anthology (Paul McCartney: Music & Animation). The short film was directed by Geoff Dunbar, with voice work by Paul himself, his wife Linda and Dustin Hoffman.