Word Painting Picture Book Review
- cynthiacenterbar
- Jul 14
- 2 min read
THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES is a picture book with no illustrations. Beautifully demonstrating how writing can be fun, creative, and artistic.
By omitting the illustrations, B.J. Novark shows the reader how to play with their writing with thoughtful word selection, typeface, and punctuation. He gives the writer permission to bend the grammatical and spelling rules when it fortifies meaning by conveying the intended emotion or conjures up a specific sound, smell, or touch.
Characters: There aren't any named characters. There is a narrator who is speaking to the reader and a child who is being read to.
Themes: writing, reading, creative play, imagination
Conflict: I don't want to read this can I stop? No because you have to follow the rules and finish what you start.
Plot: The narrator explains the rule.
The narrator then writes something that isn't true about the reader who complains and wants to stop reading, but is made to continue in order to comply with the rules.
The narrator writes escalating, crazy, and silly things about the reader, who must keep reading.
The apex of the narration tells the child they are the best and the smartest kid because they choose a book with no pictures.
As a reward for being the smartest, the narrator makes the reader say more silly and crazy things that are sure to make the child giggle with silliness.
Perspective: First person
Setting: I already told you there are no pictures so the setting is up to you --reader.
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