I Got It!

by David Wiesner, David Wiesner (Illustrator)

Overview

Three-time Caldecott winner and bestseller David Wiesner works his visual magic in this near-wordless account of the most suspenseful, nerve-wracking few seconds in a baseball game.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544313477
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	75 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

David Wiesner is internationally renowned for his visual storytelling and has won the Caldecott Medal three times—for Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam—only the second person to ever do so. He is also the recipient of three Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall, Sector 7, and Mr. Wuffles. He lives near Philadelphia with his family. 

David Wiesner is internationally renowned for his visual storytelling and has won the Caldecott Medal three times—for Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam—only the second person to ever do so. He is also the recipient of three Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall, Sector 7, and Mr. Wuffles. He lives near Philadelphia with his family. 

Hometown:

Outside Philadelphia, P.A.

Date of Birth:

February 5, 1956

Place of Birth:

Bridgewater, NJ

Education:

Rhode Island School of Design -- BFA in Illustration.

Website:

http://www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner/

Editorial Reviews

"The showing of the plausible to wild might- have-beens during that mysteriously long moment before a ball thwacks into a mitt is entertaining, and there’s a clever rhythm in the cutting back to slightly progressed reality (the ball gets closer to the kid’s outstretched hand) after each flight of fancy." - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
"Three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner hits it out of the park with this almost-wordless picture book about a boy who just wants to be part of the baseball team." - Booklist (starred review)
"Wiesner is a master of fantastical wordless (or nearly so) adventures." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Wiesner conveys with startling immediacy how time slows in moments of crisis, and the way that people move back and forth between the outer world of reality and the complicated, many-dimensional world of interior consciousness." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A mesmerizing and entertaining offering that will be enjoyed by a broad audience. A must-have addition to sports shelves." - School Library Journal (starred review)
"Wiesner’s latest nearly wordless picture book features his trademark hyperrealistic art that makes the ordinary extraordinary with visual narrative twists that are always unexpected, never predictable." - Horn Book Magazine

From the Publisher

…David Wiesner slows time down and finds a world of drama in those five or so hellish seconds between ball leaving bat and settling—or not—into mitt. Surely even capable athletes will relate to the interplay between body and mind, muscle and emotion, which I Got It! captures with beauty, fluidity, wit and suspense…Like René Magritte, Wiesner has a precise and realistic style that makes his leaps into the weird all the more effective…As with any good wordless picture book, I Got It! should provoke many discussions—not just about doubt and perseverance, but also about creative visual storytelling.

The New York Times Book Review - Bruce Handy