The ocean is the main character in this beautiful French wordless picturebook. Intricate and poetic line drawings depict the passage of ships across a sea that is both calm and chaotic. The sea is personified as dancing women who begin by permitting … [Weiterlesen...]
Il principi azurro, la principessa fuxia [Prinz Charming & Die Lila Prinzessin]
This is the second reversible picturebook in the corpus: the other is the Migrando [Migrating] which is themed around the migrant crisis. The wordless form is to put to use to provide two different ways of consider the same story. One side of the … [Weiterlesen...]
La Surprise [Die Überraschung]
In this picturebook Janik Coat represents the crisis of a family pet after the introduction of a firstborn child. The family cat knows something is amiss – can the reader work out what? As the couple’s pregnancy develops, the cat grows more and more … [Weiterlesen...]
De Boomhut [Das Baumhaus]
This work is a beautifully evocative and ambiguous wordless depiction of a treehouse in different scenes, times, and environments. The treehouse stands in a body of water. A polar bear approaches it and seeks shelter upon it; on the next page, a … [Weiterlesen...]
Η φάλαινα, το αγόρι και η θάλασσα ανάμεσα τους [Der Wal, der Junge und das Meer dazwischen]
This atmospheric and ambiguous Greek wordless picturebook depicts a moment of empathy between a boy and a whale. This subtlety and ambiguity will be an important springboard for conversation for children aged 8-11 years as they contemplate this text. … [Weiterlesen...]
De gele ballon [Der gelbe Ballon]
This powerful book is a reminder of how small the planet really is. We see different panoramas on each page, depicting different scenes from around the world, brought to life by vivid colour. The intricacy of the wimmelbook is avoided by the clarity … [Weiterlesen...]
Caperucita Roja [Rotkäppchen]
This challenging wordless retelling of Little Red Riding Hood is another example of a postmodern version of a fairy tale. There is also a French version in the corpus: Le Petit Chaperon Rouge [Little Red Riding Hood]. These retellings provide a bold … [Weiterlesen...]
Punainen Lanka [Roter Faden]
This Finnish wordless picturebook is self-published by the artist Filippa Hella. It uses a simple concept: a girl plays with a ball of red wool in negative space. The red thread rises above her and becomes all sorts of different things — a heart rate … [Weiterlesen...]
Zaterdag [Samstag]
Ein Gespräch über Wochenenden und Freizeit kann durch dieses Buch angeregt werden, das in seiner Darstellung des Lebens am Wochenende in einer namenlosen niederländischen Stadt starke geschlechterspezifische Darstellungen enthält. Die Einwohner der … [Weiterlesen...]
