The text and image in A Wednesday Afternoon, Chasing Tadpoles are closely connected. The theme and narrative resonate with each other. The plot is composed of multiple narrations, such as dialogues between school children and their teacher's colleagues, dialogues between red fish and tadpoles in the river, the “fish dialogue” between the other group of teacher and students, the narrator's voiceover, the texts in newspaper, and the students' homework, etc…The linear nature of time is broken by the montages of multiple voices, which present its postmodern structure. This picture book mocks the image of teachers, and subverts the relationship between teachers and students. Nevertheless, the tone is rather joking than jeering. With succinct text and free, confident, and vigorous image, this is not only an outstanding work when it comes to style and format. It is also a critical signpost in the process of Chinese picture book development.