While it does not make use of all the things I enumerated above, it has a different quality to it that renders this book timeless and breathtakingly beautiful. The reason why I had to provide such a big introductory speech is because of this amazing book I found in our community library: Chalk by Bill Thomson. And we echo what Dora the Explorer knows all along: with repetition comes understanding (or so a lot of people/educators believe – this point we can argue about at a later time).

I know I have been repeating myself like a broken record, but any book that completely communicates the narrative either through (1) colors (2) collages (3) cinematic-like illustrations (4) triptychs (5) breathtakingly beautiful paintings and lifelike-rendered portraits (6) and totally without words – is simply worth all this trouble. I knew that we were on to something great when the GB team decided to hold this bimonthly theme this March-April on Wordless Picture Books “When Words are not Enough” Our Wordless Picture Book Special for March and April 2011 Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.

#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.