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| Author | David Wiesner |
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| Illustrator | David Wiesner |
| Genre | Picture book |
| Publisher | Clarion Books |
Publication date | 1999 |
| ISBN | 978-0-395-74656-1 |
| OCLC | 36147202 |
Sector 7 is a wordless picture book created and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published in 1999 by Clarion Books, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Honor for illustration in 2000. [1]
The story is set at the Empire State Building's observatory, where a class of school children are on a field trip. The primary character is a boy befriended by a cloud who is whisked away to Sector 7, the depot for clouds. There the boy produces blueprints of fantastic new designs, in the form of ocean creatures, for the disgruntled group of young clouds. As the young clouds experiment, they delight in their new forms.
The adult clouds running the cloud depot are furious when they discover the young clouds' misbehavior, and they escort the boy back to the observatory. However, once the blueprints are examined further by the adults, they begin to admire the possibilities contained within them. As the children return home on the school bus, the New York skyline becomes filled with a profusion of clouds in the shapes of aquarium fish and ocean creatures.
In May 2000, Nickelodeon Movies beat rival Pixar in acquiring the rights to adapt Sector 7. Nickelodeon developed it as a film with Darren Aronofsky attached to direct and Good Machine as co-producers. However, as of April 2019, the project remains in development hell. [2]
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