Silent Storytelling: How Silence Lives on the Picture Book Page
A long-form essay on silence, space, and storytelling in picture books — from the PB studio and the field. Subscribe to read more at The Spread Table to receive new essays and PB notes.
“The space between the words is where the story breathes.”
- Deborah Underwood
Silence has its own language in picture books. It lives in what’s unspoken, in pauses, in white space, in the quiet before a turning page. These are notes from my studio on learning to see that quiet. This is where I first learned silent storytelling, how a page without words can still speak.
