Tuesday

By: David Wiesner (1991)

This book is about frogs, and eventually other animals like pigs, that do crazy things like fly around on lily pads on Tuesday nights when everyone else has gone to sleep. The fly around the town watching TV and playing with dogs and then when the sun starts to rise then hurry back to the pond so that they can act like normal frogs, acting as we expect them to act.

This book was interesting to read and interpret because there were very few words in the whole book. The only times that words were used was to tell the reader what time it was in the story. The lack of words made you focus your attention to the pictures to help you understand what was going on in the story. The pictures were very well done and descriptive, making it easy to follow the story even with the lack of words. I think that each reader may have their own interpretation of why the frogs started flying around at night, which would make it a very interesting book for group discussion.

I think that this would be a very good book to read with younger students because it would help them focus on using the pictures to help them understand what is going on in a story, which is a very valuable skill for younger children to have. As a teacher you could go around the room, giving each student a chance to describe a page, in the end making up your own story using the book's pictures, as a class. I might also want to go through this story once and then have students share their interpretations of the story so that they could see that there are potentially many different viewpoints with even one story.