![]() ![]() Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. Ī bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. Now Mr Wuffles has the perfect toy and he's ready to play. Mr Wuffles ignores all the toys people buy for him. Max's first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind adventure with paints, pastels and pencils, which turn out to have unexpected pitfalls.Heavily influenced by surrealist Salvador Dali, Wiesner has crafted a fascinating story about friendship, creativity and the mysterious place where these two forces meet. Arthur is an accomplished painter Max is a beginner. Max and Arthur are best friends who both want to make art. In this ingenious and imaginative - nearly wordless - picture book, frogs in a pond lift off on their lily pads and fly to a nearby town where they zoom through a woman's living room, encounter a dog playing in his yard, and distract a bathrobe-clad citizen from his midnight snack. This familiar tale will never be the same old story again. ![]() When the wolf comes a-knocking and a-puffing, he blows the pigs right out of the tale and into a whole new imaginative landscape, where they begin a freewheeling adventure as they wander-and fly-through other stories, encountering a dragon and a cat with a fiddle, among others. Satisfying both as a story and as an exploration of story, The Three Pigs takes visual narrative to a new level. ![]()
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