Window Fishing
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A heartwarming story about finding joy in art and intergenerational friendship illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Rudy Gutierrez.
Rudeday dreams of creating art that brings people joy but instead, he paints to pay the bills. His days and nights are long, until one day he hears a Tap! Tap! Tap! at his window. What could it be? Rudeday sees a piece of string with a paper clip tied to the end of it, coming from the apartment upstairs. Rudeday has a brilliant idea.
Rudeday carefully paints a fish and attaches it to the paper clip, starting a window-fishing exchange with a little boy upstairs. The pair swap paper fishes back and forth every day. Rudeday is finally painting for fun but he wonders if he will ever meet his window-fishing friend.
A heartwarming story that celebrates art, friendship, and community that is sure to pull at your heartstrings.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this picture book by married creators Dyson and Caldecott Honoree Gutierrez, commercial artist Rudeday, portrayed with brown skin, works hard at his drawing table on the fourth floor of a city building, but he has little to show for it. "No one will ever know my name. My art will never bring people joy," he grumbles. One day, there's a tap on the window: it's a paper clip tied to the end of a string, which "seemed to be saying... PLAY WITH ME!" Delighted, Rudeday draws an outsize cartoon fish with a cheerful grin and sends it up on the line. The next day, the same thing happens again—then again. Finding himself with new energy, Rudeday stops minding the noisy neighbors and dances to music "that filled him with pride to be alive." Then the daily visits stop. Soon, though, a young neighbor, also portrayed with brown skin, arrives—and Rudeday's dream becomes reality. Dyson fills her debut with emotionally tinged observations, while spreads by Gutierrez wed super-real portraiture to sizzling, swirling swoops of color in this kinetic celebration of kindred spirits and the reenergizing power of creativity. Ages 4–8. Agent (for author and illustrator): Edward Necarsulmer IV, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
