Text Optional: Visual Storytelling with Wordless Picturebooks

Jennifer Gibson

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Wordless picturebooks are on the rise and are increasingly revered by readers and critics. In many countries, including the United States, wordless picturebooks have become a sub-genre unto themselves—a publishing trend resulting in author/illustrators who even specialize in this type of book.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n2.03

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