Click right over to your library this MINUTE and request a copy (I apologize for my bossiness, but sometimes (always) my oldest childness pushes its way to the top. And then, when Ella finally picked it from the library basket, we both just sort of gaped in delight at this amazing, beautiful book. I reserved this from the library after my librarian friend Jen recommended it on Twitter, but didn’t get around to opening it until a week or so later.
Actually, it’s a great wordless picture book.
And Journey is a GOOD wordless picture book. He graduated from Pomona College in 1996, and currently lives and works in Amherst, Massachusetts.You all know I love a good wordless picture book. He attended Baltimore City College High School. Prior to his children's book work, Becker illustrated scenes in children's animated films, including The Polar Express (2004), Cars (2006), Monster House (2006), Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol.īecker was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. The book was reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, et al. Among the many publications reviewing the book were the Financial Times on 19 August 2016 and the New York Times on 26 August 2016.īecker published "A Stone for Sascha" in May 2018. The final book of the trilogy, Return, was released in August 2016.
Sam Juliano, in his popular Wonders in the Dark blog, also remarked on Quest's likelihood of Caldecott attention. Quest, the second book in Becker's Journey trilogy, was among a small group of children's books praised by National Public Radio (NPR) in anticipation of the announcement of the 2015 Caldecott Award nominees. He is best known for his wordless children's book Journey, which received positive reviews in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and a Caldecott Honor in 2014. Aaron Becker (born 1974) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
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