Created by Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, The Umbrella opens on a less-than cheery note. In a town where it rains incessantly, residents live a soggy existence, until a resourceful girl comes upon a ...

Balint Zsako’s recently published “Bunny & Tree” is built from primal fairy-tale stuff: a cute moppet—in this case, a rabbit—runs away from a big baddie (a wolf), becomes lost, and seeks refuge with ...

AMHERST — Some 22 books are highlighted in the exhibit, “Speechless: The Art of Wordless Picture Books,” on view through Dec. 5 at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. Curator David ...

There is a new exhibit - The Art of Wordless Picture Books – at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts. Wordless picture books take center stage in The Carle’s new ...

llustrations in books play an important role in several regards. For children who can't read and are, therefore, being read aloud to, illustrations help draw the child into the book with visually ...

AMHERST — In children’s books, words and pictures work together. But words can sometimes mediate the splendor of illustration, the way recording the Grand Canyon on your phone jams majesty into a ...

The Schuberts' (Ophelia) wordless fantasy unfolds like a long-forgotten childhood favorite. A dapper black terrier out with a cat friend on a gusty autumn evening finds a red umbrella. He puts it up, ...