Wordless picturebooks: Recently received
This is a list of picturebooks at Cubberley Education Library where the stories are told by the pictures.
Recently received
The last zookeeper by Aaron Becker
Publication Date: 2024Ages 5-9; K-Gr.4.
A master of the wordless form imagines a futuristic Noah's Ark in a luminous sci-fi parable for our changing world.Isla to island by Alexis Castellanos
Publication Date: 2022Ages 10 and up; Gr.5 and up.
A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life [in] 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime.The flamingo by Guojing
Publication Date: 2022Lexile measure AD430L; Ages 5-8; Gr.3 and up.
A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical. This nearly wordless graphic novel begins in nostalgic sepia toned illustrations and explodes into riotous color as Lao Lao tells her granddaughter the story of a little girl who finds herself as the caretaker of a baby flamingo.A day for sandcastles by JonArno Lawson; Qin Leng (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2022Ages 4-8; Prk_Gr.3.
A dazzling wordless picture book celebrates creative problem-solving, teamwork, and the sun-splashed wonder of a day at the beach.Every little kindness by Marta Bartolj
Publication Date: 2021Ages 5-8; K-Gr.3.
Follow the trail of good deeds in this beautiful wordless picture book to learn how small acts of kindness can make all the difference!The midnight fair by Gideon Sterer; Mariachiara Di Giorgio (Ill.)
Publication Date: 2021Ages 3-7; PrK-Gr.2.
As darkness falls on the fairgrounds, the animals venture out of the woods for one magical, memorable night! An exhilarating wordless picture book.The paper boat by Thao Lam
Publication Date: 2020Ages 6-9; Gr.1-4.
New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family's refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao's signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family's escape from Vietnam--a journey intertwined with an ant colony's parallel narrative. At her home in Vietnam, a girl rescues ants from the sugar water set out to trap them. Later, when the girl's family flees war-torn Vietnam, ants lead them through the moonlit jungle to the boat that will take them to safety.Field trip to the moon by John Hare
Publication Date: 2019Ages 4-8; Prk-Gr.2
In this wordless picture book, a girl is accidentally left behind on a class trip to the moon.Another by Christian Robinson
Call Number: Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3618 .O3232 A56 2019Ages 4-8; prK-Gr.2.
In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative journey into another world.The Fisherman and the Whale by Jessica Lanan (Illustrator)
Call Number: Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3612 .A54746 F57 2019Ages 4-8; PrK-Gr.2
Jessica Lanan's dreamy and dramatic watercolor paintings bring to life a wordless story about wonder in the natural world. A fisherman takes his son for a trip out on the water. When they encounter a whale entangled at sea, they realize a connection that transcends the animal kingdom.
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