Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives is a particularly timely and important publication ... a thoughtful reflection on the way immigrant children are often treated in busy classrooms and schools

Valerie Coghlan, independent researcher, Dublin, Ireland, International Research Society for Children's Literature

While images are sometimes marginalized in educational texts as mere scaffolding to understand written words, this book makes the case that an intertextual literacy experience, or even an experience based mainly in images, can be valuable for children from diverse backgrounds.

Jason Dehart, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives provides an in-depth look at how multimodal texts offer openings for students from (im)migrant backgrounds to mobilize their transnational knowledge in the classroom. Arizpe, Colmer and Martínez-Roldán's work embodies the spirit of the texts they feature and their resource orientations to students. Through cross-cultural collaborations and research methodologies that attend to visual modalities, they provide a rich example of 21st century literacies that is sure to inspire researchers and teachers alike.

María Paula Ghiso, Professor of Literacy Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

Product of an outstanding international research team, Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives offers the reader narratives by immigrant children about their feelings, emotions, experiences and knowledge inspired by Shaun Tan's famous picture book The Arrival. Anchored in the metaphor of the journey, and using a visual journey as support, this unique, fascinating, and well-organized volume is a fine tribute to Tan and a genuine hymn to teaching and integration of immigrant children from diverse cultural and linguistic origins.

Maria da Graça Pinto, Professor, University of Porto, Portugal

This is a very important book. It is timely as it appears at a time when educators are beginning to explore the important place of visual literacy in intercultural education and in language education as migrations brings new diversities to classrooms worldwide. It offers, significantly, important resources for opening out the imagination and enabling new visions of critical and social learning to emerge, in a scaffolded context. The authors have produced an invigorating and excitingly intellectual contribution to the field of intercultural literacy studies.

Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

In this evocative book, Evelyn Arizpe and her co-authors reflect on their ambitious research project to explore responses of immigrant children in Glasgow, Barcelona and Arizona to Shaun Tan's complex wordless picturebook, The Arrival. Framed by Tan's eloquent introduction and by the authors' in-depth analyses of the students' responses, the book offers readers new understandings of the power of visual narratives to engage these young immigrants' literacy skills, personal reflections and imaginative powers. This is an important new international addition to texts on picturebooks, visual literacy and issues of immigration.

Ingrid Johnston, Professor, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada