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This wordless picture book is a debut children’s title from Duncan Annand, a Cambridge-based architect. While a bluebird builds her nest, two eccentric gentlemen have a more ambitious construction in mind.
The book was published at the end of the summer (2018) and launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival.
A richly evocative sequence of silkscreen illustrations using a limited palette of green and blue creates a wordless picture book that is a beautifully produced work of art.
“The story of Chalk Eagle is based on a memory of my husband’s childhood. His name is Amin and he loves bird and horses. When he was a child, Amin often drew with chalk on the rooftop of his house. His favourite drawing was a big eagle. He would draw the eagle and look at it from the window of his small room on the roof. Or he would lie on it and spread his arms like the eagle’s wings, and fall asleep with the dream of flying.”
Nazli Tahvili
Mr Wuffles is of my favourite picture books. I already have it packed in my bag today to use with some 5/6 year olds.
On Friday, its creator, David Wiesner, will deliver the annual Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation, at the North Central High SchoolAuditorium. Here’s a link to a Q&A from the IndyStar…
David Wiesner prides himself on being known as “the kid who could draw” in elementary school. His third-grade teacher sent home a note to his parents, saying their son would rather be drawing than doing school work.
It would have come as no surprise, then, thatWiesner grew up to be a children’s book author, producing beloved titles such as “Flotsam” and “Mr. Wuffles!” The Philadelphia-based illustrator has won three Caldecott Medals, only the second person in history to achieve that hat trick.
via Hear what ‘wordless author’ David Wiesner has to say about books.