Finding Wordless Picturebooks
Your local library and children's librarian are a great resource for discovering wordless picture books, but there are many resources out there to find new and exciting wordless picture books. Some of those include lists created by readers and booksellers. Here are just a few to investigate.
Good reads is a website that allows individuals to freely search an extensive user-created database of books, annotations, and reviews.
Here is a link to a shelf created by users dedicated to wordless picture books. |
Booksellers have created list of popular wordless picture books.
Here are the links to those list on these popular bookseller's sites. |
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign S-Collection has a useful website full of information on children's literature, including a page dedicated just to their collection of wordless picture books.
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Tips on Using Wordless Picture Books
Here is a link to an article posted on the the website Reading Rockets that shares tips with parents on how they can share Wordless Picture Books with their children. The tips focus on how using wordless picture books can build children's literacy skills in the areas of listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension and an increased awareness of how stories are structured.
Here is a link to the website of Delta Publishing Company. They provide five practical ways of how one might go about using wordless picture books with children.
My Little Bookcase is a blog created by Jackie, a parent and elementary teacher from Australia whose aim is to provide both parents and educators with ideas to engage children in reading, writing and other literacy-based activities. Her post on how to use wordless picture books looks at the wide range of children audiences that can benefit from the use of wordless picture books and different ways that they can be engaged while using wordless picture books. Here is a link to that post.
Melissa Hayes
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Created Fall 2014 to fulfill LIS 592
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Created Fall 2014 to fulfill LIS 592