The Little Barbarian is the kind of fantasy that entertains both children and adults. In this brilliant wordless picture book Renato Moriconi, a Brazilian just like me, gives freedom for the readers to play with their imagination. He starts by choosing the vertical format, exploring the book as an object and wittily incorporating it into…
Hello, my name is Tita! I am a children’s writer and illustrator from Brazil and I am really happy to be writing for the prestigious My Book Corner. For my first review I chose a wonderful wordless picture book by Alice Hoogstad. The book starts at the endpapers, where all we can see is an…
From the creator who gave us Pool, comes another glorious wordless picture book. Welcome to JiHyeon Lee’s Door. Now this story begins with the endpapers at the very beginning. Don’t ever forget those, particularly in the case of this book. Or, you won’t know how that all important key appears. When our narrator is shown…
Bee & Me, from Alison Jay, is a wordless picture book and has fast become one of our favourites in our house! Even before buying it, once I had told my daughter that it had no words and you can tell the story from the pictures, straight away she was sat flicking through the pages…
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