Still as timely today as it

was twenty-five years ago!

PB: 978-0-7636-1052-4

A misfit named Wesley develops a crop-based civilization, creating an alternate world

in his own backyard. This wonderfully inventive picture book is a celebration of the
triumph of imagination and initiative over that most humble of evils: conformity.

Use Weslandia in your classroom to talk about civilizations and cultures and how they
develop, as well as the power of individuality!
 • TEACHER TIPS

• The author uses rich language to tell Wesley’s • After reading Weslandia as a group,
story. Here are some of the words students discuss the importance of a staple food
may need help with: crop and list some ways it influences a
culture/civilization.
aromatic grudgingly
bedlam myriad • Create a list of things required to build
civilization outcast a civilization.
constellations platform
• Have students create their own
crop-based staple food
civilizations centered around a real or
domain tormentors
imaginary staple food crop.

Illustrations © 1999 by Kevin Hawkes