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#DashingThruDecember Day 28: A powerful wordless recently-released #Picturebook that I just borrowed via Libby. Review is forthcoming.

“This book gently yet powerfully explores the relationship between humans and nature, addressing the urgent issues of destruction and restoration while highlighting the essential qualities of ecosystems—diversity and coexistence.”

Read the full review here: https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-4/10/

This picture book has no words but the art is stunning and beautiful. It's basically showing pencils in nature, as trees, etc. Just a gorgeous book all around.

⭐ 🌟 ⭐ 🌟5 ⭐
This book is a master class in wordless storytelling. This book is about a dog that needs to be walked, and the kid that doesn‘t want to walk them. Unlike some books where every single page is different this book both has one and double page illustrations as well as a page of graphic novel, like illustrations that move the smaller points of the story through faster.

A beautiful and delightful tribute to art, imagination, creativity and the city of New York. I love to discover dialogue free books, purely visual storytelling, There's such a wealth of possibilities, I feel like there's so much more to explore and experiment with in such a medium that there should be more out there than I've found. Happy to take recommendations!

"A fossil shows the traces or remains of animals and plants that lived 10,000 or more years ago. A fossil can be a rock with a preserved part of an extinct animal or the imprint of an ancient plant. By studying fossils, we can learn a lot about prehistoric life."

Because of the wordless element of this book, teachers can prompt student engagement by asking students to describe what they think is happening in the story.

The hyper-realistic illustrations and creative perspectives add excitement to the book. Aside from a page explaining fossils, the story is completely wordless. The story still went in an unexpected and imaginative direction!

I would not use this is my classroom. More for fun than a lesson