# Sector 7 (book) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sector_7_(book) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sector_7_(book).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_7_(book) > Source revision: 1332494117 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1999 picture book by David Wiesner This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sector 7" book – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Sector 7 Cover Author David Wiesner 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](/source/Wordless_picture_book) created and illustrated by [David Wiesner](/source/David_Wiesner). Published in 1999 by [Clarion Books](/source/Clarion_Books), it was the recipient of the [Caldecott Honor](/source/Caldecott_Honor) for [illustration](/source/Illustration) in 2000.[1] ## Summary The story is set at the [Empire State Building](/source/Empire_State_Building)'s [observatory](/source/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](/source/New_York_City) skyline becomes filled with a profusion of clouds in the shapes of aquarium fish and ocean creatures. ## Planned film adaptation In May 2000, [Nickelodeon](/source/Nickelodeon) won a bidding war against [Pixar](/source/Pixar) in acquiring the film rights to the novel *Sector 7* with [Darren Aronofsky](/source/Darren_Aronofsky) attached to direct and [Good Machine](/source/Good_Machine) as co-producer. As of April 2019, the project remains in [development hell](/source/Development_hell).[2] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-ALA_1-0)** American Library Association: [Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present](http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottwinners/caldecottmedal.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070220170349/http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottwinners/caldecottmedal.htm) 2007-02-20 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine). URL accessed January 27, 2007. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Fleming Jr., Michael (May 23, 2000). ["Nick, Machine count to '7'"](https://variety.com/2000/film/news/nick-machine-count-to-7-1117781986/). *Variety*. Retrieved October 23, 2024. - [Children's literature portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Children%27s_literature) Authority control databases Open Library --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sector 7 (book)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_7_(book)) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_7_(book)?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.