The fast ride adds greatly to the appeal here, never bogging down and always revealing new visual wonders to explore.īecker’s art shines on the page. That offers the wild pace of an adventure novel or film, so it suits the subject. The pace here is rapid, giving only a few images for each color that is gathered. At each one they gather another crayon color until they reach the pinnacle of the temple where the bad guys almost get them…īecker has created a wordless book that has the same appeal as the first book.
They embark on a quest to bring all of the crayons together, venturing into the depths of the sea, onto desert islands, to pyramids and temples. The two children go through the door and find themselves in a new world. He is dragged off by soldiers but as he goes, he drops his orange crayon, one that is just like their red and purple ones. The two children head off on a fantasy quest this time after a king comes through a door and hands them a map. He graduated from Pomona College in 1996, and currently lives and works in Amherst, Massachusetts.This follow-up to the Caldecott Honor winning Journey continues the wordless travels of the two characters from the first book. He attended Baltimore City College High School. Biographyīecker was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. 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. 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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