![]() ![]() ![]() On second thought, I would love to spend my days in a warm bathrobe, and I bet many kids would too! Watching the cat play with the toy-sized, talking spaceship seems normal when seen through Wiesner's lens. Wuffles! introduces the readers to a world of tiny aliens, showing them to be quite human in their wants and needs, if not their costuming. ![]() So, how do these two beloved books compare to each other?īoth create an imaginary world that any self-respecting child will want to explore. You (and the lucky folks on the real committee) will Have To Choose. It pains me to remind you of this, but there it is. YOU will have to say yes to a black cat and no to a train and a critter looking for a sock or a dog named Daisy, or yes to Mandela and no to Einstein. It might not be these two books, specifically, but people on the committee will have to do just this: vote for three books (one first-place vote, one second-place vote, one third-place) and NOT vote for all of the others.Īnd you, dear blog friends, will have to make similar choices in just a few days, when we open up our polls right here on Calling Caldecott. Wuffles! - have anything in common is an interesting question, but that is exactly what the Caldecott committee will have to consider. What does a wordless picture book about an imaginary world have in common with a mostly wordless book about a cat's encounter with aliens? Whether these two books - Journeyand Mr. ![]()
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