Co-Constructing Stories: Sharing Wordless Picture Books with Preschoolers

Authors

  • Andrea A. Zevenbergen
  • Alli L. Angell
  • Nicole A. Battaglia
  • Caroline M. Kaicher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.19.4.22

Abstract

“A wordless book doesn’t have the author’s voice—the text—telling the story. Each reader tells it in their own way.”

In this quotation, three-time Caldecott Medal recipient David Wiesner vividly describes the opportunity that wordless picture books provide for the reader to create their own story. The term “wordless picture books” is often used to refer to picture books completely without words throughout the set of illustrated pages, and “nearly wordless” is used for picture books presenting only a few written words across the book.

Author Biography

Andrea A. Zevenbergen

Andrea A. Zevenbergen is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology, the State University of New York at Fredonia. Alli L. Angell has been the Head of Youth Services at the Benicia (CA) Public Library since 2006. Nicole A. Battaglia is a graduate student in School Psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology. Caroline M. Kaicher is a senior undergraduate student at Colgate University (NY), majoring in neuroscience and minoring in linguistics.

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Published

2021-12-03

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 4 (2021): Winter

Section

Features

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