Wordless Trilogy: Being: Journey, Quest, and Return

BECKER, Aaron. Wordless Trilogy Being: Journey, Quest, and Return. [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick Press [2013-2016]. Oblong 4tos, [40]pp each. Black, red, and navy boards with spines stamped in gold and each front pictorially stamped in blind. Pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. Fine copies in original color pictorial dust jackets (no medal affixed to Journey). Each book is signed by the author/artist, Caldecott Honor Artist Aaron Becker, with his signature stamp.

First editions. 2014 Caldecott Honor Book for Journey! An ordinary child steps through a portal into a luminous and magical landscape, beginning her quest toward an uncertain destiny. This epic, three-part quest will see her captured by a sinister emperor, rescuing a jailed king, and finally reconnecting with her father, all wordlessly told with exquisite imagination and artistry in Becker's breathtaking illustrations.