Sector 7 (Caldecott Honor Book)

This book is a very beautiful book that can be told many different ways. It is about a boy who makes friends with a cloud and travels around with the cloud touring a big city.

I really enjoyed this book. I don't think that that I have ever read a wordless picture book, or at least my in my memory. I

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had a good time making up a story as I went through the book. I also enjoyed just looking at the pictures.

This would be a good book for older children to give them an opportunity to write their own stories.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and thought the surrealism painted by the author/illustrator was awe-inspiring. There are so many layers to the story, which can be told in many different ways. An engaging book for toddlers, as well as, young adults.

An absolutely wonderful book about a boy on a field trip to the Empire State building. Separated from his class, he befriends a cloud. The cloud takes him up to Sector 7, the distribution center for clouds--the place where they get their marching orders, if you will. The boy starts to doodle some

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bizarre shapes on the "assignment sheets" that tell the clouds what they should look like. As a result, some pretty wacky clouds end up descending on New York City. Well, the supervisors--they're humans--get wind of what's happening and send him back to the Empire State building. But the cloud and boy form a lasting friendship. Oh, happy endings! The illustrations are wonderful, the narrative non-existent. The reader can make his or her own variations on the storyline, which is refreshing for someone like me who reads a lot of text. I find that with picture books with text, I end spending more time on the text than on the pictures, which is not at all the point of a picture book. Text can distract from the art, which is something that Wiesner avoids by eliminating text. And really, he doesn't need it to complete his story. Excellent book, recommended for purchase for all collections.

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This is the wordless telling of a boy's adventure while on a school field trip to the Empire State Building. The young boy befriends a cloud, who takes the boy to Sector 7, where we witness boring cloud shape makers. The boy sketches some inspiring sketches, but gets kicked out. This is a dreamy,

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fluid story that knits together art, friendship, weather, along with eloquence and humor. Great to use in class for weather discussions, free drawing of clouds, story telling, make believe.

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Brilliant wordless picture book. Design and illustration are great. Wiesner really gives emotion and feeling to the main character as he takes an unexpected trip to Sector 7.

Sector 7 is another great wordless book by David Wiesner. In this story a little boy's dream takes him to the cloud making factory in the sky where he designs the shapes of the clouds.

Wonderful story about a boy on a school fieldtrip to empire state building. It is very foggy and he can’t see anything but he makes an unusual new friend; a cloud. The cloud takes him to Sector 7 where clouds come from. This artistic boy suggests some new ideas for the clouds but he is caught and

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sent home. But the clouds revolt and show their support of these new ideas. The pages are laid out in comic book style and it is very easy to “read” the book and follow along. The illustrations are gorgeous and detailed. You understand the emotions and purpose of the boy, the clouds, and others.

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Mr. Weisner has us follow a boy on his class field trip to the Empire State building. It's not usually the best sort of day for such a trip, with a heavy fog covering everything. But our character finds a curious cloud who befriends him and takes him on a journey to where clouds are designed and

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sent out. A train station type of place with a few very serious managers who insist that clouds only follow certain ways of looks. The boy makes a few ocean drawings which incites some of the clouds to imitate the forms, getting them and the boy into trouble. The boy is sent back to where he came from. But when he looks up he still can see glimpses of his ocean designs in the clouds overhead.

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A perfect explanation for why clouds often appear as familiar people, places and things!
This book is extremely entertaining for many, many reasons, but one of them being its silliness.
The detailed cloud drawings do not hurt either.
This would be a fun book to read with a preschool-3 classroom on a

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day where cloud shapes are visible. Perhaps a walk or cloud search could then follow.

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Sector 7 by David Wiesner is another good book on weather. The story is about a little boy who is on a field trip to the Empire State Building in New York City. While on the field trip, they go on top of the building where the boy meets up with a cloud. He befriends the cloud and hopes on the

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clouds back. The cloud takes him to “Sector 7”. This is where the clouds get their shapes. Unfortunately all the clouds are frumpy and boring looking. They want something new and exciting. The boy starts drawing fish and the clouds are very excited. The boy gets kicked out of sector 7, but arrives back with his class trip just in time to see the fish cloud show.

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This is a wordless story about a young boy that is taken on an adventure to a cloud transfer station. He first starts on a school field trip at the viewing platform atop the Empire State Building. A live cloud being whisks him away to the station where clouds come to be assigned and shaped and

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directed away. The boy causes trouble when he starts drawing blueprints for the clouds to shape up like giant sea creatures. He is asked to leave the station and finds his school field trip again. The next morning, above Manhattan, float enormous sea dragons and puffer fish and shark clouds.
Grades 1-6. Wide appeal (its a picture book!). Group Read, independent read. Positives - amazing illustrations, no words - pictures say everything but also open to creative intepretationk, very imaginative
Negatives - too short.

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I can just imagine my students adding the words to this cartoon strip-like book. Wiesner adds such expression to the characters faces (human AND cloud) that the imagined dialogue is just spilling out your mouth!

A boy goes on a field trip with his class to the Empire State Building. There his imagination takes him away into the clouds and the factory or station where the clouds come from. Soon the boy is in control, drawing the clouds in the most fantastical shapes and figures. Weisner's flights of fancy,

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coupled with his most extraordinary illustration skills make this an unforgettable, dreamy masterwork of the imagination. A must read for anyone who loves to be transported to the outer realms.

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Personal Response:
I enjoyed Wiesner's approach to cloud shapes. The fanciful approach to the dismal fog and the introduction to how clouds become what they are is fun and beautiful. Children of all ages are sure to enjoy this wordless picture book about the formation of clouds.

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Connections:
Children can learn about how clouds are formed, the types of clouds (listed in Sector 7's Arrivals/Departures) and draw their own cloud-shaped objects. In good weather, children can also be taken outside to observe clouds and make up stories about the images they see.

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Another splendid book without words from David Wiesner - this time the story of a by on a school tour who ends up befriending a cloud. And when boy with imagination and a pencil meets clouds bored of being fluffy, the sky will never be the same again.

Personal Response: After reading Flotsam and Tuesday, I was eager to read Section 7. It did not disappoint at all. I love this book!
Curricular Connection: Students could add their own narrative to the illustrations.

A wordless picture book with some of the most exquisite illustrations I have seen. The pictures take you through a boy’s field trip where he meets a friendly cloud. An adventure ensues in which the boy ends up providing new and improved designs for cloud shapes. The depth of the story present in

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the pictures amazes and the unusual fantasy story is inspirational. Yet another wordless picture book that my daughters pored over.

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An incredible nearly wordless book that celebrates originality and creativity. Children will learn narrative skills or telling stories in their own words as you read this book aloud together. Adults and children will fall in love with this book and the clouds' unstoppable drive to express their

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individuality.

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A young boy befriends a cloud, takes to the skies, and ends up instigating a cloud rebellion when he creates new designs for the adolescent clouds. RESPONSE: A beautiful book, the illustrations are clever and the concept is charming. THEMES/CONCEPTS: creativity, individuality, friendship, tradition

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vs. innovation

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In Sector 7, David Wiesner creates a story with only pictures about a boy that starts out ordinary, then becomes something extraordinary. The boy in this book is taking a school field trip to the Empire State Building, a very tall building in New York City. While on the observation deck, the boy

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meets a friendly cloud who takes him on a magical ride to Sector 7, a type of train station for clouds. Here, the clouds are told where to go and what to look like. The boy, however, disrupts the organized, and somewhat bland, rules of the human administrators and teaches the clouds to form their own shapes that changes the sky into an underwater exhibit of exotic sea creatures.

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Another wild ride from David Wiesner, a boy makes friends with a mischievous cloud while on a field trip to the Empire State Building. When his new friend takes him to the cloud factory in the sky, Sector 7, the pair throw a monkey wrench into the operations that has everybody in the city looking

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up. How wonderful it would be to pair this book with a science lesson on clouds, or to show a group of students just for fun.

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Another wordless wonder and a Caldecott Honour book, this graphic novel tells the fantastical story of a boy with artistic talents who goes on a school outing to the Empire State Building. Once in the observatory, the children are disappointed to find the sky is too cloudy to see the views, but the

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boy is approached by a friendly cloud who whisks him away to "Sector 7", a cloud manufacturing plant somewhere in the skies. Once there, the boy causes a small revolution when he starts drawing creative shapes featuring gorgeous sea creatures for the outgoing clouds. I loved the concept and realization of this book, but just couldn't buy the idea of those friendly clouds with the smiling faces for some reason. Still, a book most definitely worth checking out for the sheer creativity and beautiful (and intricate!) watercolours by Wiesner.

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This book is a Caldecott Honor Book and is appropriate for the grades pre-k through the first grade. The book has no words and many pictures with tons of descriptions that would interest younger children. There are one or two words in the pictures that the teacher can read to the students. The book

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starts off with a class going to the Empire State Building. A boy loses his hat, scarf and gloves and finds that a cloud has stolen it. They become friends and the boy ends up following the cloud to a factory that tells the cloud how big they should be and where they should go. The boy takes all of the clouds blue prints and changes them. Instead of their regular shape he turns them into animals of the sea. Some of the workers of the factories get angry and the boy is sent back home. At the end though when the boy looks up at the sky he sees clouds shaped like a fish and an octopus.
Uses in the classroom:
- I would have materials (cotton balls, crayons, shapes made out of construction paper) set up for the children and have them create their own kinds of clouds.
- After I would have children share what they drew and why.
- I would hang all the cloud drawings on the ceiling all around the classroom.

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"Sector 7" is about a young child that goes on a feild trip to the empire state building and gets abducted by a cloud. The cloud takes the child to a place called Sector 7 which is a cloud making factory. The child draws up plans for bizarre clouds that look like fish. When the child leaves the

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museum the sky is filled with fish that the child had imagined. The illustrations are detailed and thourough enough to tell the whole story.

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