Il bambino e la soffitta

I'm just loving the wordless picture books I've been reading lately, and A Boy and a House is a wonderful example. We follow a small boy through gorgeously illustrated pages as he follows a cat and a trail of drawings. There is not a whole lot of story here, but these images are so detailed that

Honestly, I'm unsure whether I'll be using this as a wordless book for teaching purposes. While the pictures are delightful — the attention to detail is beyond extraordinary — I'm not at all sure what the accompanying story is supposed to be. It would be a nice feature if wordless picture books like Leggi tutto

Maja Kastelic’s atmospheric illustrations in A Boy and a House trace a boy as he follows a cat into a spooky house in the evening. The picture book has no words, but the ending doesn’t really make sense with what came before. The illustrations greatly outpace the plot. In the interest of full disclo Leggi tutto

This wordless picture book by Slovenian author Maja Kastelic features a boy following a cat into and then through an old house. Along the way, he finds drawings scattered about rooms. The rooms are filled with "vintage" items. He finds a surprise awaiting in the attic. Although the book contains no

OK, I'll bite – the obvious reference here is Shaun Tan, especially as this wordless graphic story is so open to interpretation. However it has much less of his scale, even while sharing so much of his visual quality and attention to detail. A boy thinks he's chasing a black cat through open doors i Leggi tutto