Awesome insights and ideas for Multilingual Learners using Wordless Picture Books!!!

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I like the wordless book idea. Especially as we look into adoption. Thanks!!!

The giveaway would be so helpful to us.

We love Goodnight Moon!

Great recommendations. Thanks!

I do wordless books with my 2 year old and it’s so neat to hear her imagination and encourage her creativity!

Thank you for all the wonderful recommadations!

We live Good Dog Carl and all the other Carl books. They have a few words at the beginning but are mostly wordless stories.

I remember my life brother having one of these about a Rottweiler named Carl! Should look into it for my youngest son.

I love wordless storybooks! My 5 year-old has started asking leading questions to me when we go through them. His stories are great!

There is a new book on the market – just released Talk with Me! Check it out – great wordless children book!

Where s Walrus – Stephen Savage
Ball for Daisy – Chris Rashka

I love the list for older kids! I’ll have to check some of those out. Thank you for the inspiration!

I like South by Patrick McDonnell.

Red Sled for my snow lovers!!

I think the Red Sled would be the most appropriate wordless book right now. I think they would love to “read” a story about winter.

I think my son would enjoy Frog, Where are You?

Frog, Where are you?

I would like to read sidewalk circus

I’ve enjoyed ‘reading’ Anno’s Britain and The Strawberry Snatcher
With my children. The stories they make up along with attention to detail in the pictures
has been valuable in their reading skills and comprehension.

Frog Where Are You looks like something my children would love! :)

I would love to have my son read, Frog, where are you, to me. He loves frogs.

We’ve read some of the Mercer Mayer ones. I think My littles would like The Lion and the Mouse.

Great idea’s, I never knew the point of a wordless book… I’ll have to try that with my pre-readers.

I my daughter would love the Red Sled, the kids can’t wait until it snows!

We have the wordless book “My Friend Rabbit” & my kids love it!

I think my daughter would like Pancakes for Breakfast, since that is her all time favorite food.

I have never been a big fan of wordless books, but never really knew their value. We have Truck somewhere (we moved earlier this year to a very small house) and I haven’t put all the books back in circulation yet. But I know my two youngest boys would love that book very much!

Wordless Books are fun! I think my kids would love Sidewalk Circus- it looks like a lot of fun!

Wordless books are especially great tools for my son who has Expressive Language Disorder. We videotape him telling us the story and can see how far he has come when we watch him tell us the same story in a year or so.

You have to check out A Ball for Daisy (Raschka), Journey (Becker), and Fossil (Thomson). We also enjoy anything by David Wiesner.

Red sled looks like a good winter book!

frog, where are you? is one we dearly love. I have a slight infatuation with frogs, and my kids love all things Mercer Mayer.

My kids would love ‘The Lion and The Mouse’!

Only one? I see lots of fun and possibilities with all of them. Sidewalk Circus. I love to hear the interpretation of the illustrations and a story unfold as only children can tell it. It’s fun to take turns too.

Frog Where are You looks fantastic!

We love the Lion and the Mouse book. It was gifted to our daughters and quickly became a favorite. I think the Truck book looks good too. Our son would definitely love looking and exploring it. Thanks for the great tips to help our pre-readers learn to love books.

What a great idea to help struggling writers learn to tell a story! I wasn’t aware of this genre of literature. Thank you for sharing.

We enjoyed Anno’s Journey.

I have never seen a wordless book before, but they sound like a great idea for working on language skills! I’m going tone checking out Sidewalk Circus and Red Sled very soon.

The Red Sled & Pancakes for Breakfast would be perfect for my 5-yr old, who is just starting to read, but has always resisted telling stories or narrating picture books, so these books would be great practice. Several of them would be great for my almost 3-yr old, who is already a great story-teller — esp. Lion and the Mouse, and Noah’s Ark.

We loved wordless books like the “Good Dog, Carl” series and these look exceptional. I think any of them would be grand to own, especially “The Lion and The Mouse”.

Frog, where are you looks like it would be fun for my 4 yr old
They all look great :)

I would love the Noah’s Ark book. My daughter has several books like that and is very intrigued by the story. She is 3.

Frog Where are You and The Flower Man look really interesting.

Noah’s Ark looks the most interesting. My girls are loving the story of Noah’s Ark right now.

Frog Where Are You or Noah’s Ark look fun!

My son L oVEs trucks so we would have to look at that one! We read one about a snowman, he loved it but got sad when the snowman flew!

Lion and the mouse is great.

We have the Mercer Mayer book. My boys beg me to ‘read’ it to them. They dislike it when I ask them to tell me what is going on rather than tell the story myself. We own another wordless one about a mouse baby who is too inquisitive & falls out of its nest in the basement of a house, goes on an adventure, and ends up back at the house. I’ll have to try your techniques and see if they go better than what I’ve been doing so far.

Truck and Frog Where Are You? both look fun to me.

We love Sidewalk Circus!

I really like the looks of Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier. I like the idea of my children really thinking about what they are seeing and using their vivid imaginations to tell the story. Great article!

Thanks for this list and link for more wordless books. I was so very pleased to see that our library has all but 2! Thanks so much!

I am so excited to get wordless picture books and hear where my children’s imagination takes them.

The Lion and the mouse looks like a interesting read; thinking about how big a lion is and how small a mouse is, that maybe the book could be about courage? strength? helpfulness? humbleness? meekness? mmmm Would love to find out. {a child’s imagination and wonder, could come up with many stories for those characters. heehee}

The Noah’s Ark book looks intriguing. I love any book based on the Bible. :-)

The Noah’s Ark book is fantastic! Wordless picture books can be so fun!

Great post.
My kids love the book Chalk.

All of the books look wonderful! I really like the Lion and the Mouse about kindness, compassion and friendship. Great teaching tools!

Wordless picture books are amazing adventures for both parent and child! To encourage your child to create their own story … wow! I did this a little with my oldest, just using regular books that didn’t have a lot of words. She once told me a whole different story using Goodnight Moon! It was the cutest! I look forward to hearing those stories from my youngest now! Thanks for the giveaway!

Another fantastic read, thank you. Looking forward to the lion and the mouse!

The books that are most interesting to me are: Red sled, The Lion and the Mouse, Frog where are you. Thanks so much and God bless you!

We own “Noah’s Ark” and my children love it! It was mine when I was growing up and I remember enjoying it then. I think the “Sidewalk Circus” looks fun, too.

Anno’s Journey looks neat, thank you for all these tips. Reading times are hard for me to do naturally, so I need all the help I can get!

My kids liked the look of “Noah’s Ark” and “Pancakes for Breakfast.”

I’m sure my boys would love books like these!

This looks great!

I just want to say thanks so much for your hard work, our family appreciates all you do.

We love The Lion and the Mouse and Noah’s Ark!

These wordless picture books look great and my son and I can spend plenty of time talking about the illustrations. Noah’s Ark looks beautiful. We’ll be looking for these books at our library.

We love wordless books! I’ve never heard of the Flower Man so I would be interested in checking that one out with my kids.

Pancakes for Breakfast appeals to me!

They all look like books my 4 and 1 year old would both enjoy!

They all look great. I think they would benefit my 7 yr old
That struggles to read. I had never thought of just
Picture books and his imagination. He can come up
With some great tales. Praying I win this :)

Noah’s ark and The Lion and the Mouse look interesting.

The Red Sled looks like fun!

Pancakes for Breakfast is something my kids would enjoy! They love pancakes!

Red Sled is looking good because we are working on the concept of rhyming still on cheese and cheese that same the same nothing else but Noah’s ark would allow him to identify all the animals so… I like them both!

Noah’s ark would be fun!

I usually skip these books at the library, and never thought of the value of sharing a wordless book until now. What a great concept! My son loves to flip through books and make up his own stories, so it would be fun to join in with him with a wordless book! They all look interesting to me now!

I have a little girl with downs and she struggles with communication skills but she loves to look at books. I think she would definitely benefit from these books.

I think The Flower Man looks cute. :)

“Truck” looks great. My son would probably love it.

We recently “read” Noah’s Ark for the Weaver curriculum, my son absolutely LOVED it. I kinda feel bad for almost returning it since I didn’t realize it was a wordless book! Anno’s Journey looks great!

I had never heard of wordless picture books before. I downloaded your library list. What a great idea! Especially good for using with adopted children who do not yet speak English I think. Thanks for the resource.

I’d love to try any of these!
Shame on me… I never used wordless books :(

the Red Sled book looks fun. but actually a lot of them do. I like the idea of creating a new story…I hardly ever use the printed words anyway…

I am interested in the Red Sled, Pancakes for Breakfast, Sidewalk Circus, and Truck books; however, I opened The Flower Man book website and was impressed with the pictures. My favorite scene was the page where the entire neighborhood was dark except for the Flower Man’s house. It showed how special the flowers were. And then the contrast to the page where the whole neighborhood was lite up was exciting.
I am interested in these books because I know of a kindergarten boy who is not interested in learning how to read but loves to have his mom read to him. I believe these books would continue with the pre-reading skills that he is building even though he is not yet reading.
Thanks for the info!

I was just looking into getting Red Sled yesterday. I love the questions that are generated when looking at a wordless book with my kids. Such insight into their imaginations.

I think Frog, Where Are You? looks very interesting. I’d love to have that one.

I love anything by Mercer Mayer, but I didn’t know he did wordless books as well. I’ve struggled with wordless books in the past, but I think it was because I lacked the direction & insight provided here. I am going to order a few new wordless books today & start “reading” them with my kids. I think they’re going to love this!

We love the Lion and the Mouse in our house :)

My favorite book is “Truck”

I’d love to check out these wordless books for my 3 year old daughter! She loves books and making up her own words about each picture…she would love the Noah’s ark book!

The Noah’s Ark book is awesome!! I’ve gotten it from the library before. I would love to see the Lion and the Mouse. My son would love that!! :-) Thanks

Pancakes for breakfast looks like fun, my kids love them!

the red sled. This is wordless concept is a new concept for me and quite intriguing too

The Frog, Where are you? book looks like one my boys would love.

I have some other wordless or one word picture books that my children and I love, of those you’ve shown I like the look of the Lion and the Mouse.

I like Frog, Where Are You? by Mercer Mayer. I loved reading Mercer Mayer’s books as a child.

The Red Sled looks cute!

I have always loved the Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier. It is so fun to look at the illustrater’s pictures!

I have only “read” one wordless picture book with my boys before. Thank you for sharing how they can benefit children as I often pass them by because I am so used to reading books to my sons.

We LOVE the Lion and the Mouse. I love to hear the kids tell their story.

I love the stories my son tells me and it was an easy painless way to practice his speech for therapy.

I’d love Noah’s Ark for my youngest, my dd (21months) can’t stop talking about the Lion & the Mouse, my ds (7) wants the Frog book, and my dd (9) thinks the Red Sled looks interesting.

We have the Noah’s Ark book, and I believe the Frog Where Are You? also. I love looking at the pictures with my kids, and talking about what the different people are thinking. Having them practice telling the story is also fun – having them practice making up a story about someone else’s pictures, instead of just what is in their own heads. Of the other books, the Sidewalk Circus looks like it would a blast to read with them.

The Lion and the Mouse looks fun to me!

I love how wordless books bring out the imagination of each child. It is a gateway to their thinking and processing unlike anything else.

The Lion and the mouse would be popular in our home! My children love animals !

“frog, where are you?” looks fun, and we love Mercer Mayer books. Ha has another fun wordless one that we own and the kids “read” a lot, Hiccups.

The “Frog where are you” book looks awesome. My boys love slimy things.

Oh! My youngest would LOVE “Truck” but I love the look of “Mirror”.

Noahs ark looks great

They all look interesting. We own “A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog”(not shown, but also by Mercer Meyer), and “Pancakes for Breakfast.” My kids love making up stories that go along with the pictures.

The Noah’s Ark, Pancakes for Breakfast, and Frog where are you look like they would interest my daughter!

The Noah’s Ark and Pancakes for Breakfast look interesting.

Would love to see the Noah’s Ark book! So beautiful!

We love the Noah’s Ark one by Spier!

I think my boys would enjoy Truck! my 4 year old likes to look at books (even ones with words) and make up his own story; he rarely lets me read the actual story to him. :-)

We love books. Frog where are you? looks fabulous-we love frogs.

We own “The Red Book”. My older son “didn’t get it” when it came to making up a story to go along with the pictures. However, he is more logical and concrete, less abstract and creative. Now that our youngest son is approaching 4 years old, I’m going to take this book out again to see what he thinks of it. He is definitely on the creative/imaginative side.

Can’t wait to read Red Sled with my daughter!

Frog where are you looks good :)

Thanks for the great post. “Frog, Where are You?” looks like one my boys would especially enjoy.

We are big dePaola fans. Pancakes for breakfast looks fun!

My sons enjoy Peter Spier’s, Anno’s, and Mercer’s books. They laugh at the pictures in Mercer’s books, which I get a real kick out of seeing. Spier’s Noah book is just amazing.

I absolutely love “The Flower Man” Wordless Book :)! I love them all, but I love how this one teaches about kindness :)!

Pancakes for Breakfast looks like it would stir a lot of storytelling and adventure from my girls!

Wow, what a great concept! We would love to read Tommie de Paola’s pancakes for breakfast!

My children and I love Wave by Suzy Lee and Window by Jeannie Baker.

Frog, where are you? by Mercer Mayer looks interesting =)

I love this idea of the wordless picture books! We have checked out a few from our library before. One of them is the Trucks book by Donald Crews. The Pancakes for Breakfast looks like an interesting one. I don’t see it at our library though. :(

We have never tried wordless books but looks like we need to give TRUCKS I try since my son is into vehicles!

My 3 year old would love wordless books!

I think we would love Truck by Donald Crews. I love this idea, my kids would feel so good that they were able to “read” a story!

My daughter likes the Carl books. From your list I would love to try the Lion and the Mouse as my dad used to tell me that story as a child,

Red Sled

We’ve read a few of these. The kids love Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier. The Polo books are also fun wordless books.

I love this post. I always struggle with wordless books so it is great to get some tips on how to use them!

Wordless books are so fun to ‘read’ with the kids! I’ve never seen “The Flower Man” before, it looks very interesting!

I’m intrigued by this whole concept. I can’t wait to check out a few word less books from or library and share them with my daughter!