Wade, Cheryl, Katura, and Stephan Hudson. Photo courtesy of Just Us Books. Wade Hudson: We are happy to be with you today at the 2022 Simmons Summer Institute in Children’s Literature. Big shout-outs to Cathryn Mercier and Shelley Isaacson of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and to...

How do you read a wordless picture book? You read the pictures — and there are no air quotes around the word read. The pictures are the language and they must be read as carefully as any book with text. It’s a radical decision that an artist makes to not...