Proceedings (Mar 2018)

Silent Books. Wonder, Silence and Other Metamorphosis in Wordless Picture Books

  • Marcella Terrusi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090879
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 9
p. 879

Abstract

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In the field of children’s literature, wordless picture books, or silent books, are visual narrations offering readers the chance to experiment new ways of reading images and using words. They represent precious contexts for negotiation and co-construction of meaning; not requiring translation, they travel beyond editorial borders, creating a collective discourse telling of the world through pictures: privileged poetic themes are wonder, the discovery of pictures of art and other languages, metamorphosis, the amazement triggered by the critical capacity of projects that draw attention, in silence, to both details and “big picture” as a whole.

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