Sector 7 (Caldecott Honor Book)
 

Sector 7 (Caldecott Honor Book)

In another wondrous, wordless picture book by Caldecott Medal winner David Wiesner (Tuesday and June 29, 1999), a class visiting the Empire State Building finds complete cloud cover and no visibility. One boy makes friends with a cloud (identifiable in the mists by the red mittens, hat, and scarf and swipes from the boy), and goes AWOL on a wonderful adventure. The cloud whisks him away to... (read more)

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Amy Y
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My favorite wordless book was Sector 7 by David Wiesner. The plot begins when a young boy goes, with his school class, on a bus field trip to the Empire State Building. The wordless book shows the students taking an elevator up, up, up to the observatory. Upon arriving the young boy sees a cloud which comes to life. Characterization develops with the pictures. The plot thickens as the young boy and the cloud he befriends fly to Sector 7, a cloud dispatch center. As clouds receive their...

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