Wordless picture books to picture story books


There are many ways to tell a story, especially in children's literature. Whether it's with the pictures, words, or both authors and illustrators are able to tell stories that get children excited about reading. There are different levels of words and pictures used that affect how the book is classified. A story with no words at all is considered a wordless picture book (for obvious reasons). I came across an amazing wordless picture book called I See You by Michael Genhart. In this book, the viewer is experiencing the life of a homeless woman who isn't seen by anyone, except a young boy who helps her. The concept combined with the illustrations by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff makes this a powerful story. 

A story with a small number of words that use illustrations to aid the telling of the story is considered a picture book. I found a fun picture book by Sergio Ruzzier called ironically This is not a picture book! In this story, a duck finds a book that doesn't have any pictures and is, at first, very upset about it. Through this story we slowly see the duck start to enjoy his book through the changing illustrations. We can see what's happening in the ducks' book by how the illustrations around him start to change. This charming book is really fun to read or just interesting to look at the illustrations. 

If the book has illustrations but the storyline doesn't need illustrations to help tell the story it's a picture storybook. The Universe Ate My Homework is a spunky picture storybook by David Zeltser. In this story, a young girl wants to find any way to get out of doing her homework so she figures out how to create a black hole to get away from the pressure of school work. There's funny dialogue, cool illustrations, and a main character that's easy to love. Picture storybooks are great for children of all ages because even when you get into high school, college, and beyond, everyone likes a good illustration to go with the book you're reading!

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