Worth a Thousand Words

Wordless picture books are a great way to empower kids to tell stories.  (In the old version of Every Child Ready to Read, this was the building of "Narrative Skills."  For the new version, we can just say that it encourages talking).  The Chicken Thief by Béatrice Rodriguez is an adorable wordless picture book that has bright, specific illustrations.  My daughter enjoyed telling me about what was happening on each page.  I think that next I will have to bring home The Red Book by Barbara Lehman.  It has been a while since I read it, but I remember this being another that impressed me with the clear plot and room for extrapolation that it provided.