A Wordless Dance of a Picture Book

If you're a fan of wordless picture books, Elly MacKay's Waltz of the Snowflakes lends itself to conversation with a child reader.Or to a cozy turning of pages with a grownup page-turner and an attentive child listener, set to the  music of the titular waltz itself.Layers of story, the gradually shifting emotions and the progression of color in the book give writers a way to access the illustrator mind--an essential kind of thinking if you want to write a picture book.