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Mr. Wuffles! - (Caldecott Medal - Honors Winning Title(s)) by David Wiesner (Hardcover)

Mr. Wuffles! - (Caldecott Medal - Honors Winning Title(s)) by  David Wiesner (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Another comic tour de force from three-time Caldecott medalist David Wiesner. Mr. Wuffles ignores all his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small green aliens. When Mr. Wuffles plays rough with the little ship, the aliens must venture into the cat's territory to make emergency repairs.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><strong>A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book</strong> In a near wordless masterpiece that could only have been devised by David Wiesner, a cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He's <em>much</em> more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens--but the ship wasn't designed for this kind of rough treatment. Between motion sickness and damaged equipment, the aliens are in deep trouble.<p>When the space visitors dodge the cat and take shelter behind the radiator to repair the damage, they make a host of insect friends. The result? A humorous exploration of cooperation between aliens and insects, and of the universal nature of communication involving symbols, "cave" paintings, and gestures of friendship.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Expertly imagined, composed, drawn and colored, this is Wiesner at his best.<br><b>--<i>Kirkus, </i> starred review <p/></b>Wiesner once again produces a fantasy adventure that isn't like anything else around.<br><b>--<i>Publishers Weekly, </i> starred review <p/></b>This exemplary Wiesnerian blend of ordinary and extraordinary incorporates the delights of <i>Borrowers-</i>style innovations, quintessential cat behavior, and Wiesner's own exquisitely fashioned art.<br><b>--<i>The Horn Book Magazine, </i> starred review <p/></b>Once again Wiesner dips into his impressible imagination to deliver a mostly wordless conceptual picture book where the mundane and the magical collide. . . .Wiesner is a three-time Caldecott winner. <i>Three.</i> Fans will be ready to pounce.<br><b>--<i>Booklist, </i> starred review <p/></b>Visual storytelling at its best.<br><b>--<i>School Library Journal, </i> starred review <p/></b>The award-winning Wiesner (his trophy collection would make Meryl Streep blush) is a master of the form, a magical realist who makes the commonplace seem suddenly more interesting.<br><b>--<i>The Atlantic Wire <p/></i></b>"Fans of <i>Tuesday</i> will recognize Wiesner's easy shift from the mundane to the fantastical here as well as his deft and plausible creation of a skewed reality. . . . On a more dramatic note, there's a Spielberg/Lucas level of glory to the bold ant-back and ladybug-flying escape scenes (you can practically hear the John Williams score)."<br><b><i>--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Wiesner</b> is the second person in the Caldecott Medal's history to win the award three times, for <i>Tuesday</i> (1992), <i>The Three Pigs</i> (2002), and <i>Flotsam</i> (2007), and has also received two Caldecott Honors. He lives with his wife near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have two children and two cats. Visit his website at www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner.

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