![]() ![]() Mysterious and atmospheric, Tuesday asks far more questions than it answers. When they get the dragon home, he returns their kindness by scaring the wolf off permanently. A largely wordless picture book, Tuesday conveys the strange happenings one evening, when a fleet of frogs glide in on floating lily pads, alarming the natives of a quiet American suburb. Together the pigs visit a book of nursery rhymes and save the aforementioned dragon from death at the hands of a knight. The three pigs land in the margins, which open out onto a postmodern landscape hung with reams of pages made for climbing on, crawling under and folding up for paper airplane travel. ![]() (fans may note a strong resemblance between the dragon in that volume and the one featured in these pages), he takes the idea of 3-D characters operating independently of their storybooks to a new level here. Though Wiesner briefly touched on this theme in his Free Fall Find and circle words across, down, and diagonally. But when the wolf begins to huff and puff, he blows the pigs right out of the illustrations. After reading Tuesday by David Wiesner, use this printable and interactive Word Search puzzle to extend student learning. This version of the pigs' tale starts off traditionally enough-warm, inviting watercolor panels show in succession the tiny houses, their owner-builders and their toothy visitor. As readers have come to expect from the inventive works of Wiesner, nothing is ever quite as it seems in his picture books. ![]()
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