Journey (picture book)

Journey is a children's wordless picture book written and illustrated by Aaron Becker.

The book was published in 2013 by Candlewick Press.

[1] It was selected as a Caldecott Honor Book in 2014.

Through pictures alone, the book tells the story of a lonely girl who uses a red crayon to escape from a mundane world into a magical adventure full of fun and exhilarating adventures.

The girl travels on a magic carpet and boat, gets trapped by an evil tyrant, and must find a way to escape along with a purple bird.