Note: This list does not include picture books listed. To see a complete this of children's books, please click here: Complete List of Wordless Picturebooks
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Arizpe, E. (2013). "Meaning-making from wordless (or nearly wordless) picturebooks: what educational research expects and what readers have to say." Cambridge Journal Of Education, 43(2), 163-176.
Bader, B. (1976). American PictureBooks from Noah's Art to the Beast Within. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc.
Beckett, S.L. (2012). Crossover Picturebooks A Genre for All Ages. New York: Routledge.
Bosch, E. (2014). Texts and Peritexts in Wordless and Almost Wordless Picturebooks. In B. Kümmerling-Meibauer & P. Nel (Eds.), Picturebooks: Representation and Narration (pp. 71-90). New York, NY: Routledge.
Chaparro-Moreno, L.J., Reali, F. & Maldonado-Carreno, C. (2017). "Wordless picture books boost preschoolers' language production during shared reading." Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 40, 52-62.
Dowhower, S. (1997). Wordless books: Promise and possibilities, a genre comes of age. In K. Camperell, B. L. Hayes, & R. Telfer (Eds.), Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, 17, 57-79.
Galda, L., Sipe, L., Liang, L. & Cullinan, B. (2014). Literature and the Child (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Hu, R. & Commeyras, M. (2008). "A Case Study: Emergent Biliteracy in English and Chinese of a 5-Year-Old Chinese Child with Wordless Picture Books." Reading Psychology, 29(1), 1-30.
Jalongo, M. R., Dragich, D., Conrad, N. K., & Zhang, A. (2002). "Using Wordless Picture Books to Support Emergent Literacy." Early Childhood Education Journal, 29(3), 167.
Lindauer, S.L.K. (1988). "Wordless Books: An Approach to Visual Literacy." Children’s Literature in Education, 19(3), 136-142.
Louie, B. & Sierschynski, J. (2015). "Enhancing English Learners' Language Development using Wordless Picture Books." The Reading Teacher, 69(1), 103-111.
Lysaker, J. T., & Miller, A. (2013). "Engaging Social Imagination: The Developmental Work of Wordless Book Reading." Journal Of Early Childhood Literacy, 13(2), 147-174.
Mantei, J. & Kervin L. (2015). "Examining the interpretations children share from their reading of an almost wordless picture book during independent reading time." Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 38(3), 183-192.
Martinez-Roldan, C.M. & Newcomer, S. (2011). “Reading between the Pictures”: Immigrant Students’ Interpretations of “The Arrival”. Language Arts, 88(3), 188-197.
Pantaleo, S. (2007). “How Could That Be? Reading Banyai’s Zoom and Re-Zoom.” Language Arts, 84(3), 222-233.
Read, D. & Smith, H.M. (1982). "Teaching Visual Literacy through Wordless Picture Books." The Reading Teacher, 35(8), 928-933.
Richey, V.H., & Puckett, K.E. (1992). Preface. Wordless/Almost Wordless Picture Books, A Guide (pp. ix). Englewood, Colorade: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
Wiesner, D. (1992). Foreword. Wordless/Almost Wordless Picture Books, A Guide (pp. ix). Englewood, Colorade: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
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