Wiesner's first book was
Honest Andrew, a
picture book with text by
Gloria Skurzynski, published by
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1980. That year he also illustrated a novel by
Avi,
Man From the Sky (Knopf, 1980). After illustrating a dozen or more books with other writers, he and his wife Kim Kahng co-wrote
Loathsome Dragon, a picture book with his illustrations that
G.P. Putnam's published in 1987. Since then Wiesner has created many picture books solo—as writer and illustrator, or stories without words.
Free Fall (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1988) was a Caldecott Honor Book, a runner-up for the annual
Caldecott Medal, conferred by the
American Library Association on the illustrator of the year's best-illustrated picture book. In January 2017, Wiesner had a retrospective art exhibition entitled
David Wiesner & the Art of Wordless Storytelling at the
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. In the exhibition Wiesner showed his work highlights throughout the years of his career. ==Works==