Lina’s parents allow her to go as long as she does lessons with grandpa on Saturdays.
Desperate to avoid this, Lina and her friend Claudia, who is black, get Lina accepted at the Hilltop Science and Arts Academy. This prompts her stern grandfather to ask that Lina move in with him so he can teach her to control her powers. While making a grand entrance at the castle of her grandfather, the North Wind, she fails to successfully ride a gust of wind and crashes in front of her entire family. Lina herself is mixed race, with black hair and a tan complexion like her Asian-presenting mother’s her Groundling father appears to be a white human. This is not a typical gathering, since Lina’s maternal relatives are a royal family of Windtamers who have power over the weather and live in castles floating on clouds. Ice princess Lina must navigate family and school in this early chapter read. When cave paintings depict the dad as the hero, casting out the villain, hearts swell and eyes well.Ī fantastic final leg to a reading journey that altered, expanded, and enriched the landscape of children's literature-and surely many young people's lives Readers remember the dad's distraction, which started both this book and the trilogy itself. The father and child's mutual adventure unspools silently but with urgency. A wicked, horned warrior invades the castle, seizing the magic crayons from crowned royals (the first child, a second, and a king).
Such ambitious, elaborate pictures demand time, and an insistent, pulsing plot battles with their embedded reverie. Becker's elaborate watercolor-and-pen illustrations capture the scope and mystery of this other place, where, in a few strokes, crayons conjure marvels. New readers will find themselves startled and exhilarated alongside the father when he discovers the improvised door and steps through. Readers familiar with the series know what twinkles on the other side-a purple-plumed bird, trees hung with bobbing lanterns, a Byzantine castle just beyond. To escape the loneliness of the house, where father furrows his brow over a drafting table upstairs, a white child with a brown pageboy takes up a red crayon and draws a door. This breathless finale to Becker's Journey trilogy ( Journey, 2013 Quest, 2014) takes readers back to the intricate interior of an alternate world where crayons wield power.
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