When someone thinks of stories, they imagine words, spoken or written. But when it comes to books for children, there is a long and distinctive tradition in wordless picture books, books for all ages ...

Balint Zsako’s recently published “Bunny & Tree” is built from primal fairy-tale stuff: a cute moppet—in this case, a rabbit—runs away from a big baddie (a wolf), becomes lost, and seeks refuge with ...

In South Africa we largely overlook the potential of wordless picture books to help promote a culture of reading and to improve literacy, especially among parents and their pre-school children in poor ...

Picture books have long been regarded as books for children, however, recently, illustrated books with high quality content are becoming a universal medium for all generations transcending languages ...

Unseasonable cold and rain in Washington, D.C., did not deter a faithful crowd of children’s literature enthusiasts from attending local bookstore Politics and Prose’s fourth annual picture book panel ...

I am an insufferably logocentric sort, preferring all versions of the world around me filtered through the medium of words – anything written, a book, a magazine, a blog, a list, or a plain old ...

For many of us, large-leafed picture books have been the first steps to reading. As words grow into sentences and paragraphs, illustrations are edged out. But there’s a lot happening in the space of ...