Sector 7

Title: Sector 7
Author: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books, September 20, 1999
Reading Level: Any age
Pages: 45
Genre: Wordless Picture Book









Summary:

Yay for field trips! And this class gets to go to the Empire State building! They run to the elevator and go to the top. A little boy goes off on his own and runs into some fog, and what happens!? It takes his hat and scarf! When he looks around there's a cloud wearing his things and he won't give them back. The cloud shows the little boy what he can do and then he takes him for a ride. They fly and fly until they arrive at a place in the sky called Sector 7. Soon they are surrounded by other clouds and they go inside. However, the boy isn't allowed there sothe clouds hide him and take him to the assignment station. Here they look at the blueprints which show ordinary clouds. However, the clouds are upset because they can do so much more! They show the boy the different shapes they can make, and then the boy sits down to draw his own blueprint. He draws all sorts of fish and passes them out to the clouds. All of a sudden the people in charge notice something is going wrong. They head out and take all the blueprints and demand tha the clouds return to their normal shapes. This is when they find the boy and they take him away to the taxi station. A big cloud then takes him back to the Empire State building and drops him back off at the top. His little cloud from the beginning came with them too! So they hug, and then the teacher calls him. In a hurry, the cloud hides beneath the boys coat and they head to the elevator. The little boy floats because of the cloud, and then they are outside. The little cloud spreads his arms to show the boy what's hapening. The sky is alive with sea life!! The clouds are in the shapes of the blueprint that the boy drew and the world things it's amazing! The crew back at Sector 7 isn't very happy though. However, the clouds keep making shapes, and the little cloud goes home with the boy. This is another picture book that is wordless. The pictures take up the whole page, and you are able to see people's expressions very well. When the clouds decided to become different shapes they look like real life... except white. It's fun to see the different sea creatures and the reactions of the people when the clouds show up so different.

My Reaction:

I love wordless picture books. It's fun to create your own story and to be able to find new things in pictures no matter how many times you look at it. It reminds me of the ISPY books where there's always something different.

Potential Problems:

I didn't recognize any potential problems in this story.

Recommendations:

I would recommend this book to anyone with an imagination. How many of us have looked at the clouds to find shapes? This book is a total play on that, and it's fun to see the shapes that they do create. Little kids will have fun looking at the pictures, and older kids will have fun creating a more advanced story with their imagination.