Journey by Aaron Becker
I’ll create myself an adventure and it will start right here in my bedroom. It will encompass a castle, a hot-air balloon, and a magic carpet. Did I forget to tell you that in my adventure I will be captured, that I nearly fall off a waterfall, that I will make friends with a special bird and that I created this adventure using a special marker? It’s a grand adventure, one that is written without words so that you, the reader can add to the drama as the pages are turned. I draw with my red marker just like Harold and his Purple Crayon did in his books, only on my pages there are some pictures that accompanying my drawings. So if you’re up to it, help me create an adventure.
I liked the illustrations that are contrasted with her red marker. There is plenty to look at in the illustrations and as a reader; you could make up a few different stories by looking at the pictures. The bird is bright purple and that part of the book could have many different stories attached to it, if you think about it. I was disturbed with a detail in a couple of the pictures, as it shows a gun. I understand why it was there but it was something that concerned me.
