In a crowded public pool, a chance encounter between two children leads to a wondrous and unforgettable flight of imagination.

In a crowded public pool, a chance encounter between two children leads to a wondrous and unforgettable flight of imagination.
It’s Tuesday night and strange things can happen… like a bunch of bored pond frogs taking to the skies on magic flying carp- I mean, lilypads, and having the adventure of their lives!
Inspired by the author’s own experience with his daughter, this heartwarming wordless picture book centres on a little girl taking a stroll home with her father after a grocery run. But, despite walking side by side, what they each see and experience along the way cannot be more different.
In a sense, wordless picture books are like frames excerpted from a silent movie, telling a story in their own quiet way. Because there are no words to guide the reader along and explain the sequence of events, such books are a true test of the illustrator’s storytelling vision and artistic abilities — although, here, Marla Frazee‘s considerable talents are such that she makes it all seem almost effortless.
The premise of Hank Finds an Egg — a sweet, wordless book — is simple: Hank, a bearlike animal, finds an egg on the forest floor and, upon realising that it has fallen from its nest in a nearby tree, tries to put it back.
The Boat is a charming little hardcover book that is part of a series of re-released ‘Mouse Books’ by Swiss artist Monique Felix that star a little mouse who is seemingly trapped in the blank pages of the book, but uses its ingenuity and imagination to alter its circumstance in a delightfully unexpected manner.
A retelling of an Aesop’s fable, The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney is possibly the best iteration of the classic tale to date.
The Countryside Game is a pure concept board book with no words — only fully illustrated pages that are styled like flaps to give a layered view of a countryside, almost like a pop-up book.