All the images in the book, including this one, are watercolor paintings. The Houghton Mifflin site also has a guided tour of his process in creating the painting that’s well worth a look.
In that case, it grew out of this sort of arbitrary suggestion.” And I just organized them, and they created this sequence. I thought more and more about flying frogs, and started seeing frogs in front of the TV, chasing the dog, floating by the window, etc. But once again, I wanted to spend more time with what I created. So I did the cover, and I liked the painting. They’re very squishy and bumpy, very odd-looking things.” Reminiscent of 1950s science fiction/flying saucer movies, “ became a sort of magic carpet, flying around. All my books start in my sketchbooks, and the frogs were very interesting and fun to draw. Patrick’s Day didn’t seem all that interesting, so I thought I’d do something with frogs.
“I was working on the March cover, and two themes in this particular issue were St. It won the Caldecott award for children’s illustrated books in 1992 from the American Library Association. I loved the book and have since gotten it for a number of kids in the family, including me. I came across David Wiesner’s book Tuesday in my illustration class about a year ago. Pages 18-19 from Tuesday, by David Wiesner
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