Wordless Children’s Book Recommendations

 
 

My wonderful stack of wordless children’s books, thanks to all of your thoughtful and incredibly helpful recommendations! 📚 I am blown away by how many responses we got, and I wanted to share with you the list of over 80 (!!) wordless books, a collection of yours and my favorites. I wish I could take all of them with me. Thank you Diesel Bookstore for carrying so many of these great titles, just in time for my trip! 🧳 Heading to Nepal brimming with books and gratitude 💌

  1. ABC Dream by Kim Krans

  2. ABC Mindful Me by Christiane Engel

  3. A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka

  4. A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog Series by Mercer Mayer

    1. A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog

    2. Frog, Where Are You?

  5. Adventures of Polo by Régis Faller

  6. Another by Christian Robinson

  7. Anthony and the Gargoyle by Jo Ellen Bogart

  8. At the Pond by Geraldo Valério

  9. Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett

  10. The Boy and the Airplane by Mark Pett

  11. Brave Molly by Brooke Boynton-Hughes

  12. Bunny & Tree by Balint Zsako

  13. The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

  14. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault

  15. Chip the Monk by Pamela Breeze Bahr and Suzanne Sullivan

  16. The Depth of the Lake and the Heights of the Sky by Jihyun Kim

  17. Door by Chi-hyon Yi 

  18. Dreams by Peter Spier

  19. Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld

  20. East Meets West by Yang Liu

  21. The Farmer Books by Marla Frazee

    1. The Farmer and the Clown

    2. The Farmer and the Monkey

    3. The Farmer and the Circus

  22. Finding Fire by Logan S. Kline

  23. The Flamingo by Guojing

  24. Flashlight by Lizi Boyd

  25. Flotsam by David Wiesner

  26. Fly! by Mark Teague

  27. Forever Home: A Dog and Boy Love Story by Henry Cole

  28. Fossil by Bill Thomson

  29. Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day

  30. Good News, Bad News by Jeff Mack

  31. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman

  32. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

  33. Happy by Mies Van Hout

  34. Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley

  35. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

  36. Herizon by Daniel W. Vandever

  37. Home (aka Belonging) by Jeannie Baker 

  38. Hug by Jez Alborough 

  39. I Forgive Alex by Kerascoët

  40. In Every Life by Marla Frazee

  41. I Walk with Vanessa by Kerascoët

  42. The Journey Trilogy by Aaron Becker

    1. Journey

    2. Quest

    3. Return

  43. Lines by Suzy Lee

  44. The Lion and the Bird by Marianne Dubuc 

  45. The Lion & the Mouse by Gerald Rose and Jerry Pinkney

  46. Little Bird by Germano Zullo 

  47. Look Book by Tana Hoban

  48. The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer

  49. Miffy Series by Dick Bruna 

  50. Mirror by Jeannie Baker

  51. Mirror by Suzy Lee 

  52. Moonlight by Jan Ormerod

  53. My Friends by Taro Gomi

  54. My River by Shari Halpern

  55. Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

  56. Once, a Bird by Rina Singh

  57. One by Kathryn Otoshi

  58. Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson

  59. Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola

  60. People by Peter Spier

  61. Polo: The Runaway Book by Régis Faller

  62. Pool by Lee Ji-hyeon

  63. The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

  64. Rain by Peter Spier

  65. Re-Zoom by Istvan Banyai 

  66. Red Sled by Lita Judge

  67. The Return by Natalia Chernysheva

  68. Sector 7 by David Wiesner

  69. Shadow by Suzy Lee

  70. Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson

  71. Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth by Eric Carle

  72. The Snowman by Raymond Briggs  

  73. The Subway Sparrow by Leyla Torres

  74. Sunshine by Jan Ormerod

  75. The Surprise by Sylvia Van Ommen

  76. They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel

  77. The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz

  78. Things That Go Away by Beatrice Alemagna

  79. Treasure in the Trunk by Linda MacRitchie Graf

  80. Tuesday by David Wiesner

  81. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

  82. Wait by Antoinette Portis

  83. The Wanderer by Peter Van den Ende

  84. Wave by Suzy Lee 

  85. Welcome to Mamoko by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski 

  86. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

  87. Window by Jeannie Baker 

  88. Wonder Bear by Tao Nyeu

  89. Yellow Butterfly by Oleksandr Shatokhin 

  90. Yes by Jez Alborough

  91. Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka

  92. Zoom by Istvan Banyai

Have any other recommendations of wordless books or books with few words?

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