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I could add so many more details to that plot summary, but none of them are verifiably true and that’s the best part of Journey. The bird leads her to a door just like her own, except it’s the same color as the bird! On the other side, she is back in the real world down the street from her house, where she meets a boy with purple chalk. The girl tries to save the bird, but she’s captured herself, and the two work together so she can get free. In that world, she learns that the chalk can draw anything out of thin air.Īfter sailing through a town built on a series of canals, she encounters a group of soldiers flying in zeppelins are trying to catch a vivid purple bird. Journeyis the story of a young girl who uses a piece of red chalk to travel to a fantastic world by drawing a door on her bedroom walk. Becker proves himself an ingenious storyteller with an eye for detail and a knack for tantalizing ambiguity. The Journey Trilogy by Aaron Becker is a beautiful, brilliant, fantastical trio of wordless adventure books by with a capable little girl hero, each with plenty of room for interpretation and expansion in the retelling. Reading Time: Depends on the reader! Between 4-15 minutes each, for us. Themes to Discuss: imagination, fantasy, canals, cooperation

Gender Diversity: Female protagonist most other characters are male, although background characters are sometimes agender. What a difference a few months made! The Journey Trilogy: Journey, Quest, and Return by Aaron Becker I wondered – how would EV like the book now that she was older and more engaged in the shared creation of a story? Would Journey include both enough narrative and enough ambiguity to make for as interesting a read as Pool? When E was listing off books from her want-list for our request list for the library and mentioned Journey, my ears pricked up. Pool was one of our most-read books during the summer. If I asked nicely enough and didn’t make a big deal about it, EV would even “read” Pool to me. I took a turn reading it to her, and I noticed different facets of it than E, so my telling was a shade different. Sometimes she interjected to add something from a prior telling, others she inserted her own details. E kept making up the story of Pool, and EV began to interact with the story.

Then, I watched something magic begin to happen. I was skeptical of it at first, recalling EV’s disinterest in Journey. Over the summer, E bought EV a wordless book called Pool. EV didn’t seem to love it, either. I took away that EV wasn’t excited about wordless picture books. I gave it a cursory page through and didn’t quite get it. Long before we had ventured to the library she was already cycling through books for EV every time she visited. The first time I encountered a wordless picture book for children was Journey at my mother’s house nearly a year ago.