7/17: picturebook without pictures

In my class we've studied some picturebooks which don't use words, and that led me to think about what a picturebook which didn't use pictures would be like.  Could it be done in a way so that it still seemed to "count" as a "picturebook"?  The question has been sitting in the back of my mind for a few weeks now, mostly as a kind of artistic/theoretical musing.  Today I found out that Hans Christian Andersen actually wrote a story called "A Picturebook without Pictures."  Go figure!  Of course I read it.