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Free Fall





Author: -David Wiesner

Title: -Free Fall

Illustrator: -David Wiesner

Publisher: -Clarion Books

Year: -1990


Format: -Hardcover Book

Genre: -Picture Book (No Text)

Reading Level: -Assisted Reader

Interest Level: -Preschool, Early Elementary

Topics: -Imagination, Dreaming, Exploring.

Summary: -In this book the boy falls asleep and dives into his own fantasy. He is indulged into both real life things but they are made unrealistic. The imagination pushed into this book is amazing, Wiesner does a great job of never setting limits and using his amazing illustrations to detail the book so well.

Extension Activities:
-Draw an explicit picture/storyboard of your craziest dream ever. Make sure that their are NO words on one side, just illustrations. On the back of the paper make a detailed description about the same dream. Switch papers with a friend and see if they can explain your dream to you as well as you did with words on the back of it. This activity shows how hard it is to get a point across without using words, you have to be very specific with your pictures and everything must have a meaning to it.