Aaron Becker
2013
Journey is a wordless, picture book. It is about a girl who feels neglected by her friends and family. She retreats to her room, only to embark on an imaginary world where she does feel wanted. She uses a read marker to draw her mode of transportation to take her where she wants to go next in her mind. She uses a boat, hot air balloon, and a flying carpet as modes of transportation. She moves through the adventure and meets up with lots of adventure on her journey. In the end, her red marker saves the day and brings her back to reality.
Journey is a wordless book, as mentioned before. I have only had experience with wordless books in graduate school, so I just began to use them in my classroom. I am intrigued by them. Very little color was used in the beginning of the book but as the lonely girl continued into her wanted world, the color in the pictures emerged. As I read the pictures, I imagined myself as the lonely girl in the book. At times as I child, I felt lonely because my brother was 5 years younger and we were always going to his baseball games. At times, I would feel lonely and spent a lot of time in my room. I am very intrigued by picture books with no words. As an upper grades teacher, I haven't used picture books as much as some of the younger grades but I know that when I do use them in my teaching, my fifth graders love them. I can only imagine the stories they will tell when I give them wordless books and have them write the text or script.
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