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  • Weslandia

Weslandia

Illustrator
Kevin Hawkes
Publication Date
August 01, 2002
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Weslandia

Description

Enter the witty, intriguing world of Weslandia!

Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He's learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own -- civilization, that is. He turns over a plot of earth, and plants begin to grow. They soon tower above him and bear a curious-looking fruit.

As Wesley experiments, he finds that the plant will provide food, clothing, shelter, and even recreation. It isn't long before his neighbors and classmates develop more than an idle curiosity about Wesley -- and exactly how he is spending his summer vacation.

Publication date
August 01, 2002
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780763610524
Lexile Measure
820
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
Gardens
Gardening
Civilization
Plants
Gardeners

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review

A young nonconformist invents a self-sufficient civilization in his suburban backyard. "Words and images fluidly play off one another as Wesley creates a language for his new produce and the crop erupts into a lush tropical landscape," wrote PW in our Best Books citation. Ages 4-9. (Aug.)

Copyright 2002 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.

Hornbook

Starred Review
At another level, the story works for younger children, who will be drawn to the art and appreciate Wesley's inventiveness, idominitable spirit, and ultimate triumph.
Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischman is the author of many books for children, including the Newbery Medal-winning Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. With Candlewick Press, he is the author of The Dunderheads, The Matchbox Diary, and Eyes Wide Open, and Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the Word. He lives in Monterey, California.

Kevin Hawkes is the award-winning illustrator of more than fifty acclaimed picture books, including the New York Times best-selling Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen, Me, All Alone at the End of the World by M. T. Anderson, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky, and Sidewalk Circus and Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. He is also the illustrator of Michelle Knudsen's picture book Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten. He is also the acclaimed author-illustrator of both picture books and chapter books. Kevin Hawkes lives in Maine.