Customer Reviews
Great to develop the imagination. - By: deb's reviews, 26 Nov 2008 
When I opened this book for the first time I felt myself wanting to ask question after question. This book opens up the mind of the reader & the illustration build a tale.
This book is great to read with children of all ages. It opens up a wealth of questions which can only be explain through illustrations & imagination. It also is great to use as a stimulus for writing - children writing their own Tuesday or writing about next Tuesday.
Children always come back to this book again & again & when you read it yourself you will see why.
Tuesday's Countdown: 7:58 p.m., 7:59 p.m., 8:00 p.m. Arise! - By: Donald Mitchell, 11 May 2004 Tuesday is the most imaginative picture book that I have ever seen. It is a wordless fantasy of people, animals, & plants that allows you to supply your own story. As such, it will provide endless opportunities for you & your child to entertain one another. What really is going on? What does it mean? What will happen next Tuesday?
The book is illustrated very much like a graphic novel (a series of comic books bound togetherin softcover form, if you haven't seen one) but without words. The book does have a few indicators of time & day of the week, that provide the minimal connection to reality needed to launch the story into space.
The images here are very whimsical. Frogs fly on lily padsin formation like the Blue Angels, & create lots of unexpected fun. The book is most interesting when you see what happens on the second Tuesday. How about the third? You'll have to use your imagination for that one.
This book deserves its Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustrations. In no other book that I can think of do the illustrations carry the story. The book uses vibrant colors, donein a low-key way. Stylistically, it is a take-off on the science fiction & super hero genresin pictures.
You will be laughing out loud when you see what the frogs are up to. You will also enjoy the visual puns on textless pages.
Where else can pictures tell the story? Have you ever engagedin pantomimes, shadow puppets, or charades with your child? If you haven't, this would be a good time to introduce those enjoyable games.
Imagination can take you anywhere you want!
A book for all ages - By: , 03 Jan 2002 I bought this book long before I had kids, because I loved the illustrations that seemed to jump off the page.
The story is cute & imaginative & always makes me smile inside & out. Now that I have kids it has become one of their favorite "comfort books" for rainy days.
Tuesday is no ordinary day! - By: Rebecca Brown, 06 Jul 2001 One Tuesday evening by the light of the rising moon, a turtle on a log watches the sky because the frog are going to fly!
See the fish gaping out from the water, the liliesin the swamp & the big fat frogs on their magic lily pads as the moon lightens the nighttime world.
Behold the birds of the air fly squawking away as the frogs dive & swoop; behold the sleeping homes of humans way down below; see the lone midnight snackerin his kitchen not daring to look out his window.
See, see - do you see dawn's early light & the frogs hurrying home, dropping their magic carpets on the highway where policemen, police dogs & detectives will ponder on a strange litter of lily pads. Do you know who's going to fly next Tuesday?
I love a David Wiesner book - his pictures are filled with dramatic perspectives & improbabe, hilariously exciting, speculations! If you have not seen Tuesday I urge you to go find it.
Rediscover Imagination - By: , 10 Jun 1999 My boyfriend & I have "read" this book several times together. How's that? We find a new favorite frog or interesting frog antic every time we read it....I cannot thank my three year old neice, now five years old, enough for asking me to read it to her two years ago over the holidays at my mom's (grammy's) house. I bought the hardcover book the next day & it has only gotten better & better every time!
In the words of my neice in response to the first time I half asked/half read the words--Next Tuesday 7:58pm--OH NO! WHEN PIGS FLY! GRAMMY IS GONNA BE RICH!!!
