AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Aaron Becker PUBLISHER: Candlewick
PUBLICATION
DATE: 2013 AWARDS: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award 2013, Junior Library Guild Selection Award
GENRE: Wordless READING
LEVEL: 1st - 4th grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: A bored little girl finds a red crayon and creates a door to a brand new world. She uses her crayon to draw a boat that sails her into a guarded city. Throughout the book she creates her won modes of transportation to get around. She finds a bird who then becomes her traveling partner. The bird and the little girl enter new world where she meet a boy with a purple crayon.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: What do you think will happen next? Have the students write their own story.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Kenyah Wolfe
