#468 of 1001 · November 11, 2021

Have you ever looked up at the clouds and wondered how they got their shape? There is of course a scientific answer—and then there’s the fanciful explanation David Wiesner posits in the nonverbal landscape of his irresistible book Sector 7. A boy who loves to draw goes on a school trip to the Empire State Building, and the visit takes a turn for the supernatural when he is befriended by a sentient cloud and whisked away to an airborne manufacturing hub. Within, factory workers follow strict diagrams to form the clouds that populate earth’s sky. But the budding artist has ideas of his own about how those clouds should look, and he proceeds to wreak a delightful kind of havoc with the celestial production line. To top it all off, the boy sneaks his beloved cloud companion home in his overcoat. In Wiesner’s remarkable wordless narrative, the comic-book-style panel sequences convey dynamic action and gentle humor, while the full-page spreads radiate both a cinematic scale and a deeply human warmth. #empirestatebuilding #cloud #clouds #sky #friend #friends #friendship #magic #book #books #childrensbooks #beautifulbooks #picturebook #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #childrensliterature #illustration #kidlit #kidsbooks #bookworm #booklover #booklovers #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #instabook #instabooks