![]() Gone were the little boy and the sandbox in sauntered a black cat, who fixates on the spaceship, intent on finding out what’s inside it. What if a tiny, occupied spaceship was the thing that finally captured a cat’s attention? ![]() ![]() Wiesner thought about all the cat toys he’d purchased for their felines in his family’s life that had been completely and resolutely ignored. “It struck me that it looked like a cat toy,” he recalls. Then, while waiting for his daughter outside her music lesson one day, Wiesner doodled a spaceship covered in nodules. Afterward, he took the aliens out of storage, but still, nothing worked, so he wrote and illustrated Flotsam, which (stop us if you’ve heard this one before), won the 2007 Caldecott Medal.īack to the aliens after that. So he put that picture book idea aside and worked on The Three Pigs, which won the 2002 Caldecott Medal. ![]() “The problem was what to do with them after they met.” “I liked the idea of the relationship between the child who found these little guys in his sandbox, and how they could get along even though they spoke different languages,” Wiesner says. ![]()
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