My target audience is both children as adults, I felt a wordless book is more open to a wide range of people, because the effort it takes to read and interpret the artwork.
Sarah Dowhower ( 199? P. 60) confirms my thoughts: The visual complexity and high inference level of many wordless books make them more suitable for adolescents and adults than young children.
And on page 63 she says: In summary, the wordless book is a literary genre that relates concepts, portrays themes and sequences of ideas, gives information, provides entertainment and interaction, and/or tells a story through a series of illustrations without written text. It is recent strong genre of books with a wide array of formats and illustration styles appealing to a variety of age levels.
Dowhower, S. Wordless books: Promise and possibilities, A genre come of age. Yearbook of the American reading forum(199?) pp. 57-79.
You wrote that Dowhower says (p.60) that wordless books are not so suitable for young children as for older children and adults. Can you explain this? Are small children uncomfortable with the ambiguity that pictures without captions can present?
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