31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Wordless Picture Books via SLJ

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Wordless Picture Books

SLJ Blogs: 12.03.2018 by Elizabeth Bird

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 and other images in deliberate sequence intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.”

To correctly read a wordless picture book, a reader must employ a certain level of deductive reasoning to connect the images in a book and create a comprehensible story. Heady stuff, no?

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Here are the 2018 wordless books of a higher caliber.

Here’s the schedule of everything being covered this month. Enjoy!

December 1 – Board Books & Pop-Ups

December 2 – Board Book Reprints & Adaptations

December 3 – Wordless Picture Books

December 4 – Picture Book Readalouds

December 5 – Rhyming Picture Books

December 6 – Alphabet Books

December 7 – Funny Picture Books

December 8 – CaldeNotts

December 9 – Picture Book Reprints

December 10 – Math Books for Kids

December 11 – Bilingual Books

December 12 – Translated Picture Books

December 13 – Books with a Message

December 14 – Fabulous Photography

December 15 – Fairy Tales / Folktales

December 16 – Oddest Books of the Year

December 17 – Poetry Books

December 18 – Easy Books

December 19 – Early Chapter Books

December 20 – Comics for Kids

December 21 – Older Funny Books

December 22 – Fictionalized Nonfiction

December 23 – American History

December 24 – Science & Nature Books

December 25 – Transcendent Holiday Picture Books

December 26 – Unique Biographies

December 27 – Nonfiction Picture Books

December 28 – Nonfiction Chapter Books

December 29 – Fiction Reprints

December 30 – Middle Grade Novels

December 31 – Picture Books

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