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Beginning with a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7 (the region that includes New York City). The clouds are bored with their everyday shapes, so the boy obligingly starts to sketch some new ones. . . .
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Warm, contemporary, intimate and plot-driven.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- David Wiesner
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Grimm Press, Clarion Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395746561
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David Wiesner (born February 5, 1956) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books including some that tell stories without words. As an illustrator he has won three Caldecott Medals recognizing the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children" and he was one of five finalists in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available for creators of children's books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wiesner
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