Meet the author

David Wiesner.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1956

David Wiesner: triple-Caldecott-winning American picture-book maker behind Tuesday, The Three Pigs and Flotsam — almost-wordless, technically virtuosic, visually inventive picture books for ages 4–10.

David Wiesner is an American author-illustrator born in 1956, one of the defining picture-book makers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Best known for Tuesday (Caldecott Medal), The Three Pigs (Caldecott Medal), Flotsam (Caldecott Medal), making him only the second illustrator to win three Caldecott Medals, plus Sector 7, Mr Wuffles!, and June 29, 1999. Wiesner's picture books are almost wordless, technically virtuosic, conceptually inventive, and built around visual storytelling rather than text. His style, meticulous painting, unexpected POV shifts, deadpan visual humour, has become one of the most influential contemporary picture-book sensibilities. A core canonical-classic American picture-book maker for ages 4–10.