Boxed Set-7 Books With No Pictures (Author Interview Included): The Complete Experimental Series Demonstrating a New Format in Children’s Literature [Pictureless Picturebooks]

BOXED SET presents the experimental series of Books With No Pictures complete in one value-priced volume. An Introduction to Pictureless Picturebooks is included, along with an interview with author Sage Merriman. The seven titles in this collection are: CARDBOARD BOX, MAMA DUCK, PIGGIES & TOES, ESKIMO KISSES, HUMAN BEANS, BOSSY PANTS, and GREEN BOAT.

Books in this series are easy to read because, though pictureless, they maintain the page-turn punctuation and rhythm of the traditional picturebook.

(The intent is not to replace picturebooks, but to create a better, natural bridge from them to the Magic Kingdom of Reading on One’s Own.)

In the course of being read to from traditional picturebooks, children develop listening and storytelling expectations that can be leveraged to help them learn to read. By weaning children from pictures—and making no other changes—books in this series offer the smoothest possible transition to understanding the written word.

Of course, once the seeds of literacy begin to grow, children enjoy returning to favorite picturebooks, able to experience them afresh (and all the more deeply) as they read familiar stories to themselves and others.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sage Merriman is the children’s book pen name of former small press editor and publisher, Ryan Petty. Ryan was for many years the proprietor of Cold Mountain Press (Austin, Texas). Among the respected names he published were Allen Ginsberg, William Stafford, Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, Robert Bly, Joseph Bruchac, and two future National Poets Laureate: Donald Hall and Ted Kooser (who would also win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).

Writing under his own name, Ryan is the author of WHITE BIRD: A MEMOIR OF THE SPIRIT.