Books by Sydney Smith (illustrator)
“This is another apparently very simple story, of a little girl walking home with her father. He is very distracted and is just talking on his phone while she is noticing and picking up the flowers in the pavement, the little flowers that some people would call weeds. She’s being attentive as she walks, she notices the flowers and she also notices other things, like a dead bird, and she gives it a flower, and a homeless man, a dog… She starts distributing the flowers that she has collected, and as she does so, the pages change colour. They begin to go from black, white and grey to colourful. So she is illuminating, really, the places where she goes through these flowers. It’s about love and attention and caring for someone else and spending a little bit of time with a dog or looking at the bird.” Read more...
The Best Wordless Picture Books
Evelyn Arizpe, Teacher
Interviews where books by Sydney Smith (illustrator) were recommended
The Best Wordless Picture Books, recommended by Evelyn Arizpe
Wordless picture books give the reader the power to tell the story and are immersive and enjoyable at any age, argues Evelyn Arizpe, Professor of Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Here, she shares five of her favourite wordless picture book recommendations, and gives readers tips on how to explore their layers of meaning.
