Journey, 2014 Caldecott Honor Book, and its sequel Quest are two stunningly illustrated wordless books by Aaron Becker (Walker Books). They follow the adventures of a young girl who during a boring afternoon draws a door with a red marker pen. The pen turns out to be magical and the door turns out to be …
I have been thinking a lot about wordless books for a while now, in fact for a year, after the 2014 Caldecott winners were announced: Why? Because apart from the three honors books are all wordless or quasi-wordless (in the case of Mr Wuffles!). How fascinating, and unheard of, here particularly. No wordless book …
