Before After by Anne-Margot Ramstein illustrated by Matthias Aregui**

This thick wordless book provides opportunity to infer, discuss and wonder.
The first illustration depicts the "before" and the second illustration reveals the "after".  For example, an acorn and then a majestic oak tree (a very simplistic example).
The illustrations may seem separate from each other but if one looks carefully one can see how they are interconnected.
I could see using this book to stimulate creative writing-have students write a story about a picture.
Strategies: inferring, cause/effect, thinking!
**Highly, highly recommend.