This guide was created to help you explore "wordless books" for children. This guide will also point out books that are "nearly wordless," containing some words that help get the storytelling started.
Spare, yet intricate, illustrations truly appear to take flight before our eyes and a wordless narrative nearly roars with sound as the conductor prompts the leaves to rustle, then whirl, then swirl to unexpected life with each turn of the page.
A wave deposits an old-fashioned contraption at the feet of an inquisitive young beachcomber. Its a Melville underwater camera, and the excited boy quickly develops the film he finds inside.
When he falls asleep with a book in his arms, a young boy dreams an amazing dream-about dragons, about castles, and about an unchartered, faraway land.
It's bath time! All the little piggies have had lots of fun playing, and now they're dirty, muddy, and covered in paint. If only there was a machine that cleaned little piggies...
A cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He's much more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens.
In this wordless graphic novel, a young girl traveling from her city apartment to her grandmother's country home becomes lost and enters a fantastical world in the clouds.
A boy takes a school trip to the Empire State Building. There he makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7 (the region that includes New York City).
Two kids plant mysterious seeds and up grows a remarkable flowering vine, out of which emerges an even more remarkable big white bear. On his head is the top hat that allows him to work all kinds of magic that day.