Your Humble Blogger has had a couple of interesting conversations recently about wordless picture books. The local library is considering putting up a display, or perhaps a permanent section, and so the topic came up, and I thought I would ask my Gentle Readers for their suggestions.\n
There’s The Snowman<\/I>, by Raymond Briggs, of course, and some of the David Wiesner books (Sector 7<\/I>, Tuesday<\/I> and Free Fall<\/I>). There are books by John S. Goodall and Peter Sis, none of which I particularly like. Some of the Gabrielle Vincent books about Ernest and Celestine are wordless, and I like those a lot. And there’s David Macaulay—or do all his books have words? I’m wondering about Rome Antics<\/I> and Shortcut<\/I>, neither of which I have in front of me. And there’s Eric Rohmann’s Time Flies<\/I>, which seems like a Wiesner knock-off, frankly, but not too bad at that.\n
My Perfect Non-Reader really liked Yellow Umbrella<\/I> by Jae-Soo Liu, with a music CD by Dong Il Sheen that accompanied it. I just saw a very odd but lovely book by Molly Bangs called The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher<\/i>, and Barbara Lehman’s The Red Book<\/I>, which is a small red book about a small red book about a small red book...\n
Anyway, Gentle Readers, help me help my local librarian flesh out the list. What are the good ones? And if there’s something particularly good that just has a few words (such as Peggy Rathmann’s Goodnight, Gorilla<\/I>) go ahead and throw it in, just for luck.
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian. \n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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