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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. LanaLee123 | Jun 8, 2009 |   Mr. Weisner has us follow a boy on his class field trip to the Empire State building. It's not usually the best sort of day for such a trip, with a heavy fog covering everything. But our character finds a curious cloud who befriends him and takes him on a journey to where clouds are designed and sent out. A train station type of place with a few very serious managers who insist that clouds only follow certain ways of looks. The boy makes a few ocean drawings which incites some of the clouds to imitate the forms, getting them and the boy into trouble. The boy is sent back to where he came from. But when he looks up he still can see glimpses of his ocean designs in the clouds overhead. (  )gildallie | Apr 27, 2009 | Wonderful story about a boy on a school fieldtrip to empire state building. It is very foggy and he can’t see anything but he makes an unusual new friend; a cloud. The cloud takes him to Sector 7 where clouds come from. This artistic boy suggests some new ideas for the clouds but he is caught and sent home. But the clouds revolt and show their support of these new ideas. The pages are laid out in comic book style and it is very easy to “read” the book and follow along. The illustrations are gorgeous and detailed. You understand the emotions and purpose of the boy, the clouds, and others. sroeck | Apr 21, 2009 | Magical Realism elements in David Wiesner's work: http://bigblogofmarvel.blogspot.com/s... maryoverton | Apr 7, 2009 | Sector 7 is another great wordless book by David Wiesner. In this story a little boy's dream takes him to the cloud making factory in the sky where he designs the shapes of the clouds. netaylor | Mar 15, 2009 | 0.059 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0395746566, Hardcover)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 the "Sector 7" floating cloud factory, a bizarre sky station that looks like a Victorian design for a submarine.Hiding behind his new cumulonimbus friend, the boy enters an area resembling Grand Central Station (complete with "Arrivals" and "Departures" boards) and watches officious human types in uniform giving the clouds their weather assignments. When the clouds complain to the boy that their assigned shapes are boring, he, a talented artist, creates new blueprints for them. The stuffy grownups are furious when clouds start emerging in the shape of fantastic fish; they shout at the clouds, tear up the new designs, and escort the boy back to his school group. But the revolt of the clouds is unstoppable now, and in the last few pages the skies over Manhattan suddenly get a lot more interesting. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1999 by David Wiesner. With permission of Clarion Books.) (Ages 2 to 8) --Richard Farr (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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This book is extremely entertaining for many, many reasons, but one of them being its silliness.
The detailed cloud drawings do not hurt either.
This would be a fun book to read with a preschool-3 classroom on a day where cloud shapes are visible. Perhaps a walk or cloud search could then follow.