Green Boat-A Book With No Pictures (Books With No Pictures 3)

GREEN BOAT is a seriously fun book about imagination. It’s meant to be read aloud as one side in a conversation with a child. As you read it, encourage interruptions. Take side trips. Have a good time. It’s that kind of book.

GREEN BOAT is also a tribute to the poet William Carlos Williams, a review of sorts of his famous poem, The Red Wheelbarrow.

GREEN BOAT is published in the Books with No Pictures Series. As you might expect, books in this series are pictureless but maintain the familiar format of the standard picturebook. Here’s why: For children who are used to being read to, the standard picturebook is a comfortable frame of reference—a starting point. By removing the pictures (and making no other apparent changes), books in this series emphasize the power of words in storytelling. Together, they form a useful bridge between standard picturebooks and the “early readers” and chapter books that children soon encounter on the road to reading.

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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, and two future National Poets Laureate: Ted Kooser and Donald Hall.