Author: Aaron Becker

Publication date: 2013

Description from Aaron Becker’s webpage:

“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.”

Link: https://www.storybreathing.com/journey/

Key reason(s) to include in the MobileWorlds library:

This book is a stunning deep-dive into a magical world, in which there is travel across realms, as well as in various modes – from flying ships, to balloons, to flying on a birds’ back or on a carpet, to human-driven boats, to running, and more -, and travel through imagination with the “simple” act of drawing. No words are used nor needed in this story, but it is as fascinating for a child as it is for an adult audience. It is a connection of mobility in the realm of imagination og transportation og arts and meaning-making that speaks to much of what is at the heart of the idea of MobileWorlds.