Quest

Opening just at the moment when Journey ended, as the girl with the magic red marker emerges back into her own world, meeting a young boy with a magic purple marker, Quest follows the duo as they embark on a second adventure in the enchanted parallel realm featured in the first book. When a king briefly appears and gives them a map, before being captured by menacing soldiers who drag him back into his own world, the girl and boy use their markers to open magical portals and follow him. Pursued by soldiers themselves, they use the map to track down more magical markers, eventually creating a rainbow and liberating the king...

Like its predecessor, Quest is a marvelously involving story, one which relies entirely upon the artwork to show more further the narrative. Expressive, colorful, and wonderfully imaginative, the illustrations are more than enough to keep the reader engaged. I was struck by the diverse architectural styles evident in the buildings the children visit in the parallel world. The Greek underwater temple - my personal favorite, of the locales visited - the royal city, with its western and eastern European influences, the Mayan-style temple, the vaguely Buddhist shrine: all are part of the quest. Recommended to anyone who enjoys wordless picture-books, or read Journey! show less

Thanks to the kindness of a Goodreader liking my review of [b:Journey|17262290|Journey (Journey Trilogy, #1)|Aaron Becker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1424309252s/17262290.jpg|23859090], I was reminded that I had not tracked down the rest of the trilogy. Thanks to the excellence of my library, all three books were close to hand. A perfect reading experience for New Year's Day!

This is very much the middle beat in the trilogy. The story is not as strong as the first book, and lacks some of the emotional maturity that will come into its own in the third book. Nonetheless, totally five stars for the art, and the successful capture of children at play. The quest itself is pretty odd and bland, but the kids draw their way into and out show more of every scrape, and just when they think they're OK? Oh, no! The bad guys! And then they draw their way out again. I just remember so many stories I wrote exactly this way when I was that age, and Becker captures it perfectly.

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Quest is the second book in the ‘Journey’ series of picture books by Becker. Using just illustrations Becker does a great job of showing emotion, setting, and of course the story line. This one in particular is about 2 boys who are surprised to find a king under a bridge in their park. Soon after, they enter a mystical world of dragons, bugs, knights, and plenty other enchanted characters. As I stated in the review for Journey, I think it is amazing books with just illustrations really give the reader an opportunity to show their creativity. Each individual can perceive the story differently and take something different each time they read it. Another great ‘read’ by Becker.

There is so much attention to detail in such a short story book like this one. There are pages that burst with emotions, color, illustration, and can be a story in itself. on the other hand, there are pages that only show the outline of the pictures and drawing, they are hallow inside, no outside drawing or picture, colorless. There is something that children will be able to takeaway from leaning what these two very different pictures might represent.

I had mixed feeling about this book. I liked it because the art/illustrations were unbelievable. Because it was a wordless picture book you were able to be taken through the entire story and there was so much to look at on each page. I did not like this book because there was so much going on that I started to get confused and bored. I think if a kid was reading it they would love the pictures but not understand the storyline. The message behind this book would be for kids to always use their imagination.

There is no text! It doesn't matter though because the story can be followed through the illustrations. A great book to teach kids how to guess and infer what is happening in the story by the visual clues and not the text telling them what the author wants the story to be. This format allows kids to create their own stories around what they see in the illustrations.

I'm enjoying reading this wordless trilogy backwards. This is book 2 in the series. On this adventure, the kids go exploring and run into the king and see him get kidnapped. They use their magic crayons (Purple and the Harold Crayon anyone?) to not only escape the bad guys but to reunite with the king. Excellent illustrations.