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A young reader goes on an adventure in this charming wordless comic by Bob Staake for the New York Times.

Publishers Weekly recently posted an interview with Staake about his new book, Bluebird, which is also wordless:

I love writing visually, and wordlessly, because this is was how I read books as a kid. I didn’t really read, but I was a voracious page turner. Nothing would delight me more than pulling out old National Geographics and encyclopedias and looking through the pictures. For years, I have said that this is how children learn how to read. They don’t read, they look. Parents sometimes denigrate the importance of looking in favor of reading the words. It is just as important.

Great stuff.