Sector 7

Sector 7 - David Wiesner (also illustrated)
Caldecott Honor Book
Clarion Books
ISBN: 0-395-74656-6

My rating: 4.5 out of 5

“Sector 7” follows a young boy who visits the Empire State Building on a cloudy day and befriends a cloud who takes him to see Sector 7 – a flying cloud-making station. Like most of his other books, no text appears in this book.

The illustrations are, as usual, excellent. Wiesner was able to capture both the softness and the opacity of clouds in his paintings. His illustrations of Sector 7 reminded me of a busy train station, which exactly what I think he was going for.

“Sector 7” is a fun book that I feel teachers can use in their classroom. It would a fun book to show students when beginning a science unit on clouds.