Journey
Aaron Becker
Category: Children’s
Picture Book
Synopsis: A
wordless book about a lonely girl opening up new worlds with her imagination.
Rating: * (3-star
scale)
Award: 2014
Caldecott Honor
Comments:
I’ve been known to appreciate a wordless picture book here
and there, and this one may work well for the intended audience*, but I just
didn’t like this book. For me, the artwork was just too foreboding to be
enjoyable.
Maybe the book is just too much fantasy and not enough
reality for me. I like imaginative stories up to the point of fantasy, but then
my interest flags. So, maybe it’s a me thing. (As a child, I was very
imaginative, but I was always imaginative with things that could only happen in
reality. I’m still that way. It’s why I seldom enjoy fiction.)
On a side note, I have a nephew named Aaron Becker, so there
is that!
*Amazon says ages 4-8, but I don’t know if anyone younger
than six would be able to create the narrative thread to make this make sense.
I could be wrong.
Would you recommend
this to a friend?
The right kind of kid would enjoy this one all day long, I
think.
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