Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!

Styles, SJ (2020) 'Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm! A Picture Story'. Part of the SESAME collection of research tools: Speech Elicitation for Spectral Analysis in a Multilingual Environment, developed by the BLIP Lab at NTU in Singapore. "This picture story has no written words - only pictures! You can tell the story in any language!" Wordless picture books are a well-known tool for eliciting naturalistic speech. When a story is presented in pictures, each individual can create their own version of the story, and different speakers will use a variety of words and sentences. Book sharing is a common activity at home and in schools, and simulates typical linguistic interactions. Language scientists can use wordless storybooks to investigate children's language development, or how parents, teachers and other caregivers speak when they share a story with young children. Wordless storybooks can be shared in multiple languages, including informal varieties and unwritten languages, making them ideal for research in multilingual environments like Singapore - where the story was developed. This repository contains the original storybook, written and illustrated by Dr Suzy J Styles, as well as documentation about the research tool. The book is shared under a CC-BY-NC license meaning it can be freely shared for non-commercial purposes, with credit to the original creator.