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Wiesner's latest nearly wordless picture book features his trademark hyperrealistic art that makes the ordinary extraordinary with visual narrative twists that are always unexpected, never predictable.--Horn Book Magazine The showing of the plausible to wild might- have-beens during that mysteriously long moment before a ball thwacks into a mitt is entertaining, and there's a clever rhythm in the cutting back to slightly progressed reality (the ball gets closer to the kid's outstretched hand) after each flight of fancy.--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner hits it out of the park with this almost-wordless picture book about a boy who just wants to be part of the baseball team. -- Booklist, starred review

Three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner hits it out of the park with this almost-wordless picture book about a boy who just wants to be part of the baseball team. -- Booklist, starred review Wiesner is a master of fantastical wordless (or nearly so) adventures. --Kirkus, STARRED review

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David Wiesner is internationally renowned for his visual storytelling and has won the Caldecott Medal three times--for Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam--the second person in history to do so. He is also the recipient of three Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall, Sector 7, and Mr. Wuffles. He lives near Philadelphia with his family.

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