Mr. Wuffles

Mr. Wuffles

Mr. Wuffles is a picture book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. This book had barely any words to it but the detail in the illustrations are great. I have posted a video below of the author explaining how it came to making and finishing this book, it was very interesting to watch. The topics of this book are great to keep a child entertain, some of the topics are animals, cats, dog, outer space, toys, aliens. The age level for children reading this book was be around 5-9, being read with the children will make this book more interesting for the children. The book was the winner of the 2014 Caldecott Award and was recognized way thousands of people.

The cat in the story is about the authors real cat in real lifeboat he just added more of a spin to the story. Mr. Wuffles does not want anything to do with the hundreds of cat toys we was bought because he found a cooler toy. He is more interested playing with a little spaceship full of aliens. The aliens were not prepared to deal with a cat ten times the size of them hitting their space ship so they were frightened. The aliens are trying to think fast and get away from the cat and they meet different types of insects that live  the walls of the house. Throughout the story the aliens and the insect help each other to get away from the cat. Mr. Wuffles wants to just play but the aliens are more frightened than ever.

Discussion Question:

1. Who do you think wins the fight?
2. Wh do you think Mr.Wuffles only picks one toy to play with?
3. What is your favorite type of animal?

Classroom Activity:

• Ask students to tell the story from the perspective of Mr. Wuffles and then to switch and tell the story from the perspective of one of the travelers, or one of the insects.

• Ask students to design, plan, and create their own comic or graphic novel. How do the pictures tell the story? If they choose to add dialogue, how does the dialogue move the story along. (use limited dialogue)

If you liked this picture book by David check out the other one he wrote: 

• Fish Girl
• SPOT
• Tuesday
• Art & Max 

Here is David the author explaining some of the reasoning behind this story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjNSxn3MVaM



Wiesner, David. Mr Wuffles! Andersen Press, 2014.