Journey wordless book5/25/2023 They allow children to supply the dialogue through their imaginations, forcing them to think about what is being depicted and what it might mean, allowing for endless creative interpretations. But I think that’s the point of a book like this: not only does its wordlessness allow you to fill in the story with your imagination, but the breadth and depth of the illustrations do as well.ĭiscussion: Some of my favorite books are wordless. The landscapes are wondrous: intricately drawn, somewhat medieval, somewhat steampunk, and somewhat evocative of the Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans. She also frees a captured bird, following it back into her own world, where she finally meets a friend. Once outside her room, the little girl enters a spectacular kingdom and encounters a number of challenges which require her to draw her way to safety. The author/illustrator uses pen-and-ink drawings painted over with watercolors that vary from the sepia of the little girl’s lonely and boring home life to the richer colors of her imagined adventures through a magic door she colors onto her bedroom wall. This book brings to mind not only Maurice Sendak and Brian Selznick, but also Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. Aaron Becker is primarily known for his work on films like “The Polar Express,” and you can see the influence of his cinematic background in this story of a flight of fancy taken by a lonely girl.
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