31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Wordless Picture Books

Its use is universal but its respect, nil.  Consider the multiple uses of the wordless picture book and its capabilities. How else can you make all children love reading, regardless of their comfort with words? Wordless picture books are pooh-poohed in the same way as comic books. Sequential art is considered, by some, a lower form of literature. Yet as defined by Scott McCloud in Understanding Comics, comics (and in many ways, wordless picture books) could be defined as “Juxtaposed pictorial...