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A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart’s desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all.

“Though Becker has plenty of experience as an artist for films, “Journey” is his first book, and it’s a masterwork.” — New York Times Book Review

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From the Journey series , Vol. 1

by Aaron Becker ; illustrated by Aaron Becker ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 6, 2013

An imaginative adventure story whose elaborate illustrations inspire wonder, careful examination and multiple reads.

Ignored by her digitally distracted family, a girl draws a red door on her bedroom wall and steps through.

A lush green forest twinkles with lanterns and strung lights; a dizzying castle towers, its gates, turrets and halls linked by complicated waterways; a hovering aircraft festooned with propellers and wheels holds an imprisoned purple-plumed bird. Amid these marvels, the girl appears markedly ordinary with her common pageboy haircut, minimal facial features and simple clothes. She could be anyone, really, and readers will easily appropriate her journey as their own. Putty-colored grays and flat, boxy city shapes defined the girl’s urban reality, but here, color rules, modulating from mossy greens to slate blues to dusky purple—all punctuated with her crayon’s brilliant red and the yellow of a golden bird cage. White pages highlight action (the girl’s crayon whips up a boat, a hot air balloon and a magic carpet when needed), but most spreads deliver fantastically intricate pen, ink and watercolor architectural illustrations that remain playfully engrossing. They conjure contextual questions with no clear answers, or perhaps with so many answers one’s imagination finds itself opening door upon door and crossing thresholds, just as the girl did to escape loneliness. After freeing the bird, she needs its help for a quick escape through a small purple door back to her everyday street and back to a boy who wields an equally powerful purple crayon (an obvious and moving homage).

Pub Date: Aug. 6, 2013

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6053-6

Page Count: 40

Publisher: Candlewick

Review Posted Online: May 7, 2013

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2013

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IZZY GIZMO AND THE INVENTION CONVENTION

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by Pip Jones ; illustrated by Sara Ogilvie ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2020

A disappointing follow-up.

Inventor Izzy Gizmo is back in this sequel to her eponymous debut (2017).

While busily inventing one day, Izzy receives an invitation from the Genius Guild to their annual convention. Though Izzy’s “inventions…don’t always work,” Grandpa (apparently her sole caregiver) encourages her to go. The next day they undertake a long journey “over fields, hills, and waves” and “mile after mile” to isolated Technoff Isle. There, Izzy finds she must compete against four other kids to create the most impressive machine. The colorful, detail-rich illustrations chronicle how poor Izzy is thwarted at every turn by Abi von Lavish, a Veruca Salt–esque character who takes all the supplies for herself. But when Abi abandons her project, Izzy salvages the pieces and decides to take Grandpa’s advice to create a machine that “can really be put to good use.” A frustrated Izzy’s impatience with a friend almost foils her chance at the prize, but all’s well that ends well. There’s much to like: Brown-skinned inventor girl Izzy is an appealing character, it’s great to see a nurturing brown-skinned male caregiver, the idea of an “Invention Convention” is fun, and a sustainable-energy invention is laudable. However, these elements don’t make up for rhymes that often feel forced and a lackluster story.

Pub Date: March 1, 2020

ISBN: 978-1-68263-164-5

Page Count: 32

Publisher: Peachtree

Review Posted Online: Jan. 11, 2020

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2020

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by James Yang ; illustrated by James Yang ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 23, 2019

The visual details invite interaction, making it a good choice for storytime or solo inspection.

It’s a quiet day, until….

“I have a bot!” An excited child’s happiness is short-lived, for the remote-controlled toy escapes its wireless tether and begins an ascent up the side of a skyscraper. The building’s doorman launches a race to recover the bot, and soon everyone wants to help. Attempts to retrieve the bot, which is rendered as a red rectangle with a propeller, arms, and a rudimentary face, go from the mundanity of a broom to the absurd—a bright orange beehive hairdo and a person-sized Venus’ flytrap are just some of the silly implements the building’s occupants use to try to rein in the bot. Each double-page spread reveals another level of the building—and further visual hijinks—as the bot makes its way to the top, where an unexpected hero waits (keep an eye out for falling bananas). The tall, narrow trim size echoes the shape of the skyscraper, providing a sense of height as the bot rises. Text is minimal; short declarations in tidy black dialogue bubbles with white courier-style typeface leave the primary-colored, blocky art to effectively carry the story. Facial expressions—both human and bot—are comically spot-on. The bot-owning child has light skin, and there are several people of color among those trying to rescue the bot. One person wears a kufi.

Pub Date: July 23, 2019

ISBN: 978-0-425-28881-8

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: March 30, 2019

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2019

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PLANES FLY! By George Ella Lyon Illustrated by Mick Wiggins 40 pp. A Richard Jackson Book/Atheneum. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8)

For children intrigued by flight, Lyon has written an energetic and exciting book in rhyme about planes of all sorts: “Bi-planes / tri-planes / gotta-love-the-sky-planes / Prop planes / jet planes / how-fast-can-you-get-planes.” With the look of 1930s travel posters, Wiggins’s intensely colored pictures show planes at their most glamorous, zipping between storm clouds and swooping low over forest fires. Even the in-flight snacks look appealing. Perhaps the golden age of travel isn’t over after all.

DAREDEVIL The Daring Life of Betty Skelton Written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy 48 pp. A Paula Wiseman Book/Simon & Schuster. $16.99. (Picture book, ages 4 to 8)

In the 1930s, growing up near a Navy base in Pensacola, Fla., Betty Skelton fell in love with flight. A self-described “half-pint,” Skelton nevertheless became a fearless stunt pilot, famous for cutting through a ribbon tied between two poles with her plane’s propeller — while flying upside down. She later broke records in high-altitude flying, car racing and “boat jumping” — and trained as an astronaut. McCarthy’s googly-eyed portraits make Skelton’s story amusing as well as inspiring.

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JOURNEY Written and illustrated by Aaron Becker 40 pp. Candlewick Press. $15.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8)

Though Becker has plenty of experience as an artist for films, “Journey” is his first book, and it’s a masterwork. In a tale told solely through pictures, a lonely little girl in a dull, sepia-toned city picks up a red marker and draws a door on her bedroom wall. Through it, she enters a lushly detailed imaginary world where, with the marker’s help, she floats and flies through a dramatic escapade and returns home with a friend. Though that marker will make you think of Crockett Johnson’s “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” Becker’s book has a beauty distinctly its own.

THE BOY AND THE AIRPLANE Written and illustrated by Mark Pett 40 pp. Simon & Schuster. $15.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 10)

Using a palette almost as quiet as his wordless text, Pett’s witty if subdued picture book tells the story of a little boy who receives a toy airplane as a gift. After it lands out of reach on a roof, he tries everything he can think of (lasso, baseball, pogo stick, fireman’s hose — even a ladder!) to get the plane down. Finally, the flight of a winged seed suggests another solution. Patience is amply rewarded, for both boy and reader.

FLYING SOLO How Ruth Elder Soared Into America’s Heart By Julie Cummins Illustrated by Malene R. Laugesen Roaring Brook Press. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 6 to 9)

In the 1920s, before Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic, Ruth Elder, a beauty queen with ambition, attempted a similar feat. Though she and her co-pilot had to ditch their plane, American Girl, two-thirds of the way across, Elder’s pioneering spirit made her famous. She starred in two silent movies and took part in the first cross-country air race flown by women, dismissively known as the Powder Puff Derby. Laugesen’s big, dramatic illustrations give the reader a good sense of the landscapes — and fashions — of the early-20th-century setting.

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I have worked in tech for over 20 years, starting in Web marketing and programming and moving to Quality Assurance and Test Engineering. I specialize in leading Agile engineering teams and in coaching and mentorship of high-performing engineering teams.

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Director, engineering lead 2 at willowtree.

Engineering leadership, coaching and mentoring a team of 12 software and test engineers working on a multi-platform, five workstream project for a top five WillowTree client (major sports league). Project platforms and frameworks include iOS, Android, tvOS, NextJS/React, Java/Spring Boot, and .NET/Azure. Increasing the efficiency of the engineering team by clearing blockers to work, employing automation strategies, and using past experience to guide best practice decision making. Collaborating as the engineering lead with the project manager and the client to assist client engineering and product leaders with architectural, framework, and technical decisions for each workstream. Responsible for personal and professional growth of engineers, as well as ensuring Agile engineering best practices are being followed on our embedded teams.

Quality Engineering Lead at The Zebra

Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and other team members to advocate for team quality standards, share the sprint’s work and review the testing plans and roadmaps. Mentor and train a group of 5 Quality Engineers in best practices, testing skills, and automation. Create test plans, test strategies, testing roadmaps, and best practices for the Quality Engineering group. Implement tools and integrations to increase transparency of testing work and facilitate reporting. Work with SDET Lead on CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab and DevOps issues.

Quality Assurance Manager at inMotionNow (Lytho)

Newly created position within the development department at a SaaS company. Leadership, coaching and mentoring of a team of four quality analysts in the U.S. and one in the Netherlands, as well as process work revamping quality practices to increase efficiency and decrease escaped bugs. Creation of full test strategy and planning for merger with Lytho in the Netherlands. Oversight of automation testing suite in Cypress. Sole responsibility for staffing and performance reviews of QA Team.

Senior Software Test Engineer at WillowTree

Started as a Quality Assurance Analyst in 2017 and worked my way up to Senior Engineer over a course of just under 4 years at a digital agency. Directed engineering teams as well as served as a Quality Engineering Lead for the CBC team. Worked closely with a team of engineers, project manager, engineering director and clients to ensure requirements are met and end product is high quality. Web (cross-browser, emulator) testing, mobile testing (iOS, Android), OTT platform testing (tvOS, Android TV, Fire TV), both automated and manual across the SDLC. Mentored new and current test engineers. Device manager at Durham location for three years, including purchasing, managing budget and provisioning and tracking of hundreds of individual devices. Introduced an efficient pipeline between client's customer service team and QA leadership, leading to faster bug resolution and a shorter feedback loop.

Quality Assurance Analyst at Verscend (Cotiviti)

Worked on Quality Assurance team for the Payment Accuracy division of Verscend. Responsible for test design, execution, and testing infrastructure of the Verscend core clinical rules engine (CMS and MCD rules, fraud): Coordinated with Clinical Rules subject matter experts and product experts to ensure requirements, documentation, and test coverage meets client expectations and internal quality guidelines. Created and maintained test matrices, documentation, and scripts used for monthly compliance and feature releases for clients such as Aetna and UPMC. Performed testing of Clinical Rule Modules, collaborating with developers and subject matter experts to ensure correct functionality. Responsible for the majority of monthly compliance release test creation, management in Git and Bamboo, execution and subsequent regressions. Assisted in testing the replacement toolset for the legacy test system, which reduced testing time by 50% or more, removed the most error prone processes, and allowed support for continuous integration testing of both compliance updates and features.

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Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes

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The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded today at Columbia University, honoring American achievements in journalism, letters and drama, and music. Widely recognized as the most prestigious awards in their field within the United States, the 108th Pulitzer Prizes took place against an unusually fraught backdrop. In a statement last week, the Pulitzer Board commended student journalists covering campus protests against the war in Gaza, acknowledging they were often placing themselves "in the face of great personal and academic risk."

Twenty-three prizes were awarded last year, with cash prizes of $15,000 going to the recipients of most of the prizes and a gold medal to the news organization that wins the Public Service Prize.

The New York Times won one of its three Pulitzers this year for its coverage of the war in Gaza . The award for International Reporting went to its staff for "wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas' lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel's intelligence failures and the Israeli military's sweeping, deadly response in Gaza." The Times also took Pulitzers in the Features and Investigative categories, the latter for a series by Hannah Dreier that revealed "the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States – and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it."

The Washington Post tied with the Times with three wins in the categories of Commentary, Editorial Writing and National Reporting. It shared the last with the staff at Reuters, which also won a Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography, for " raw and urgent photographs documenting the October 7th deadly attack in Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel's devastating assault on Gaza ."

And film critic Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times won a Criticism Pulitzer for "richly evocative and genre-spanning" work "that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience." Chang also contributes to numerous other publications, including NPR .

In arts and letters, the Biography award was given to two authors. The judges called Jonathan Eig's King: A Life , a revelatory portrait of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr . Ilyon Woo also won a Biography Pulitzer for Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom .

The Fiction Pulitzer went to West Virginia writer Jayne Anne Phillips for her novel Night Watch . It's about a traumatized family in the aftermath of the Civil War. And the Nonfiction prize went to A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, by Nathan Thrall . The treatment of a grieving Palestinian father was described by the judges as a "finely reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank."

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Prizes in Journalism

Public Service "Awarded to ProPublica for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct."

Breaking News Reporting "Awarded to the Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California, for its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses."

Investigative Reporting "Awarded to Hannah Dreier of The New York Times for a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States – and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it."

Explanatory Reporting "Awarded to Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker for a searing indictment of our legal system's reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color."

Local Reporting "Awarded to Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute for their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis."

National Reporting "Awarded to the Staff of Reuters for an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk's automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies' practices in Europe and the United States."

"Awarded to the Staff of The Washington Post for its sobering examination of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon often used for mass shootings in America. (Moved by the Board from the Public Service category, where it also was entered and nominated.)"

International Reporting "Awarded to the Staff of The New York Times for its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas' lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel's intelligence failures and the Israeli military's sweeping, deadly response in Gaza."

Feature Writing "Awarded to Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times for her fair-minded portrait of a family's legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch's progressive dementia that sensitively probes the mystery of a person's essential self."

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Vladimir Kara-Murza in Moscow on Feb. 22, 2024.

Commentary "Awarded to Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post for passionate columns written at great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin's Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country."

Criticism "Awarded to Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times for richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience."

Editorial Writing "Awarded to David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post for a compelling and well-researched series on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought."

Illustrated Reporting and Commentary "Awarded to Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker for his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books."

Breaking News Photography "Awarded to the Photography Staff of Reuters for raw and urgent photographs documenting the October 7th deadly attack in Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel's devastating assault on Gaza."

Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama on May 9, 2023. Ivan Valencia/AP hide caption

Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama on May 9, 2023.

Feature Photography "Awarded to the Photography Staff of Associated Press for poignant photographs chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States."

Audio Reporting "Awarded to the Staffs of the Invisible Institute, Chicago, and USG Audio, California, for a powerful series that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the 1990s, a fluid amalgam of memoir, community history and journalism."

Letters and Drama Prizes

Fiction "Awarded to Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf), a beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia's Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal."

Drama "Awarded to Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, a simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person's life and enrich an entire community."

History "Awarded to No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books), a breathtakingly original reconstruction of free Black life in Boston that profoundly reshapes our understanding of the city's abolitionist legacy and the challenging reality for its Black residents."

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Jonathan eig's new biography examines the life of martin luther king jr..

Biography "Awarded to King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of each stage of the civil rights leader's life, exploring his strengths and weaknesses, including the self-questioning and depression that accompanied his determination."

'Master Slave Husband Wife' details a couple's journey from slavery to freedom

"Awarded to Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster), a rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters."

Memoir or Autobiography "Awarded to Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth), a genre-bending account of the author's 20-year-old sister, murdered by a former boyfriend, that mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss."

Poetry "Awarded to Tripas: Poems, by Brandon Som (Georgia Review Books), a collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet's dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family's working lives, creating community rather than conflict."

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General Nonfiction "Awarded to A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan Books), a finely reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through a portrait of a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son dies in a fiery school bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams are delayed by security regulations."

Prize in Music "Awarded to 'Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)' by Tyshawn Sorey, premiered on March 16, 2023 at Atlanta Symphony Hall, an introspective saxophone concerto with a wide range of textures presented in a slow tempo, a beautiful homage that's quietly intense, treasuring intimacy rather than spectacle."

Special Citations "The Pulitzer Board awards a special citation for the late writer and critic Greg Tate, whose language – cribbed from literature, academia, popular culture and hip-hop – was as influential as the content of his ideas. His aesthetic, innovations and intellectual originality, particularly in his pioneering hip-hop criticism, continue to influence subsequent generations, especially writers and critics of color.

In recent years the Pulitzer Board has issued citations honoring journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan. This year, the Board recognizes the courageous work of journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza. Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza. This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts, and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience."

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Aaron Becker's Wordless Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set (Journey, Quest & Return) Paperback – January 1, 2020

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• Language English
• Publisher Walker Books
• Publication date January 1, 2020
• ISBN-10 9123970537
• ISBN-13 978-9123970537
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walker Books (January 1, 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9123970537
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9123970537
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
• Best Sellers Rank: #80,218 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books )

About the author

Aaron becker.

Born in Baltimore, Aaron Becker moved to California to attend Pomona College where he scored his first illustration job designing t-shirts for his water polo team. Since then, he's traveled to Kenya, Japan, Sweden, and Tahiti backpacking around while looking for good things to eat and feeding his imagination. He now lives with his family in Amherst, MA where he's busy at work on his next book project. You can find out more about what he's been up to lately at storybreathing.com.

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