Wordless Picture Books

Abstract Alphabet (Chronicle, 2001)
Illus. by Paul Cox. ISBN 0-8118-2940-5

The Adventures of Polo by Regis Faller

Anno's Journey (Philomel, 1978)
Illus. by Anno. ISBN 0-399-20762-7

Anno's Spain (Philomel, 2004)
Illus. by Anno. ISBN 0-399-24238-4

The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard (Roaring Brook, 2004)
Illus. by Gregory Rogers. ISBN 1596430095

Changes, Changes (Macmillan, 1971)
Illus. by Pat Hutchins. ISBN 0-02-745870-9

Chicken and Cat by Sara Varon

Clementina's Cactus (Viking, 1999)
Illus. by Ezra Jack Keats. ISBN 0-670-88545-2

Clown (Holt, 1996)
Illus. by Quentin Blake. ISBN 0-805-04399-3

A Day, A Dog (Front Street, 2000)
Illus. by Gabrielle Vincent. ISBN 1-886910-51-0

Deep in the Forest (Dutton, 1976)
Illus. by Brinton Turkle. ISBN 0-525-28617-9

Dinosaur! (HarperCollins, 2000)
Illus. by Peter Sís. ISBN 0-688-17049-8

Do You Want to be My Friend? (Philomel, 1988)
Illus. by Eric Carle. ISBN 0-399-21598-0

Follow Carl! (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998)
Illus. by Alexandra Day. ISBN 0-374-34380-2

Flotsam Illus. by David Wiesner (Clarion Books, 2006) ISBN 0618194576

The Forty-Six Little Men (HarperCollins, 1991)
Illus. by Jan Mogensen. ISBN 0-688-09283-7

Four Hungry Kittens (Dial, 1996)
Illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. ISBN 0-8037-2505-1

Free Fall (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1988)
Illus. by David Wiesner. ISBN 0-688-05583-4

Freight Train (Morrow, 1978)
Illus. by Donald Crews. ISBN 0-688-80165-X

Good Dog, Carl (Simon & Schuster, 1985)
Illus. by Alexandra Day. ISBN 0-671-75204-9

Good Night, Garden Gnome (Dial, 2001)
Illus. by Jamichael Henterly. ISBN 0-8037-2531-0

The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher (Simon & Schuster, 1980) Illus. by Molly Bang. ISBN 0-02-708140-0

Have You Seen My Duckling?

Home (Greenwillow, 2004)
Illus. by Jeannie Baker ISBN 0-06-623935-4

Island Dog (Two Dog Press, 1999)
Illus. by Rebecca Goodale. ISBN 1-89109-003-8

Little Star (Hyperion, 2003)
Illus. by Antonin Louchard. ISBN 0-7868-1939-1

Magpie Magic: A Tale of Colorful Mischief (Putnam, 1999)
Illus. by April Wilson. ISBN 0-8037-2354-7

Midnight Adventures of Kelly, Dot, and Esmeralda (McElderry, 1999)
Illus. by John S. Goodall. ISBN 0-689-82564-1

Mouse Letters: A Very First Alphabet Book (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
Illus. by Jim Arnosky. ISBN 0-395-55386-5

Mouse Numbers: A Very First Counting Book (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
Illus. by Jim Arnosky. ISBN 0-395-55006-8

Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Houghton Mifflin, 1984)
Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg

An Ocean World (HarperCollins, 1992)
Illus. by Peter Sis. ISBN 0-688-09067-2

Oh! (Abrams, 2000)
Illus. by Josse Goffin. ISBN 0-810-93660-7

Pancakes for Breakfast (Harcourt Brace, 1990)
Illus. by Tomie de Paola. ISBN 0-15-259455-8

Peep! (Peachtree, 2003)
Illus. by Kevin Luthardt. ISBN 1-56145-046-4

Polo: The Runaway Book by Regis Faller

Rain (Doubleday, 1982)
Illus. by Peter Spier. ISBN 0-385-15484-4

Rainstorm by Barabara Lehman

Re-Zoom (Viking, 1995)
Illus. by Istvan Banyai. ISBN 0-670-86392-0

The Red Book (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
Conceived and illus. by Barbara Lehman. ISBN 0-618-42858-5

The Ring (HarperCollins, 1996)
Illus. by Lisa Maizlish. ISBN 0-688-14217-6

Sector 7 (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
Illus. by David Wiesner. ISBN 0-395-74656-6

Silent Night (Antheneum, 2001)
Illus. by Sandy Turner. ISBN 0-689-84156-6

Sidewalk Circus (Candlewick Press, 2004)
Presented by Paul Fleischman and Kevin Hawkes. ISBN 0-7636-1107-7

The Silver Pony: A Story in Pictures Illus. by Lynd Ward, Lynd Kendall Ward

A Small Miracle (Random House, 1997)
Illus. by Peter Collington. ISBN 0-679-88725-3

The Snowman (Random House, 1986)
Illus. by Raymond Briggs. ISBN 0-394-93973-5

Tabby: A Story in Pictures (HarperCollins, 1995)
Illus. by Aliki. ISBN 0-06-024915-3

Time Flies (Random House, 1994)
Illus. by Eric Rohmann. ISBN 0-517-59598-2

The Tooth Fairy (Alfred A (Knopf, 1995)
Illus. by Peter Collington. ISBN 0-679-97168-8

Tuba Lessons (Creative Editions, 1997)
Illus. by Monique Felix. ISBN 0-152-01643-0

Tuesday (Clarion, 1991)
Illus. by David Wiesner. ISBN 0-395-55113-7

Window (Greenwillow, 1991)
Illus. by by Jeannie Baker. ISBN 0-688-08918-6

Why? (North-South, 1996)
Illus. by Nikolai Popov. ISBN 1-55858-534-6

The Yellow Balloon (Front Street, 2003)
Illus. by Charlotte Dematons. ISBN 1-932425-01-2

Yellow Umbrella (Kane/Miller, 2002)
Illus. by Jae-Soo Lui. ISBN 1-929132-36-0

You Can’t Take A Balloon into the National Gallery  Illus. by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, Robin Glasser

You Can’t Take A Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum  Illus. by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, Robin Glasser                                                                  

You Can’t Take A Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts  Illus. by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, Robin Glasser

Zoom (Viking, 1995)
Illus. by Istvan Banyai. ISBN 0-670-85804-8

Wordless Graphic Novels

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Owly: The Way Home and the Bittersweet Summer by Andy Runton

Robot Dreams by Sara Varon

 

Wordless Picture Books Cited in WORDLESS BOOKS: NO-RISK TOOLS FOR INCLUSIVE MIDDLE-GRADE CLASSROOMS ,  By: Cassady, Judith K., Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 10813004, March '98, Vol. 41, Issue 6

Briggs, R. (1978). The snowman. Random House/Scholastic. The video (26 minutes) by SONY was an Academy Award Nominee in the U.S. and is available through Scholastic Books.

DePaola, T. (1978). Pancakes for breakfast. Harcourt.

Goodall, J.S. (1978). An Edwardian Christmas. Atheneum.

Goodall, J.S. (1976). An Edwardian summer. Atheneum.

Goodall, J.S. (1975). Creepy castle. Atheneum.

Goodall, J.S. (1988). Little Red Riding Hood. Margaret K. McElderry.

Goodall, J.S. (1986). The story of a castle. Margaret K. McElderry.

Karlin, B. (1991). Meow. Simon & Schuster.

Krahn, F. (1977). The mystery of the giant footprints. E.P. Dutton.

Krahn, F. (1974). The self-made snowman. Lippincott.

Turkle, B. (1976). Deep in the forest. E.P. Dutton.

Romann, E. (1994). Time flies. Random House.

Wiesner, D. (1992). Tuesday. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.