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Födelsedag: 1974
Kön: male
Nationalitet: USA
Födelseort: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bostadsorter: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Utbildning: Pomona College, California
Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design
Yrken: writer
illustrator
artist for Pixar, Disney, Lucasfilm
film designer
art teacher
camp counselor (visa alla 7)
graphic designer
Relationer: Wife, daughter
Kort biografi: Born in Baltimore, Aaron Becker moved to California to attend Pomona College where he scored his first illustration job designing t-shirts for his water polo team. Since then, he's traveled to Kenya, Japan, Sweden, and Tahiti backpacking around while looking for good things to eat and feeding his imagination. He now lives with his family in Amherst, MA where he's busy at work on his next book project. You can find out more about what he's been up to lately at storybreathing.com. [retrieved 7/20/2019 from Amazon.com]

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The Tree and the River av Aaron Becker

A beautiful wordless book that views a tree and a river bend through the centuries as civilizaitons rise and fall in that location. The civilizations are clearly fictional, but with recognizable stages.

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KristenRoper | 9 andra recensioner | Apr 15, 2024 |

The Last Zookeeper av Aaron Becker

"Only if we understand, can we care.
Only if we care, will we help.
Only if we help, shall all be saved." --Jane Goodall

A tall yellow wind-powered robot rescues wild animals from rising waters, sending a message in a small boat and constructing a full-size boat - an ark? - to carry them all. The robot, elephants, giraffes, rhinos, and zebras sail under starry sky and through a storm, washing up on some low-lying islands, where another robot - equally tall, purple, and solar-powered - descends in a hot air balloon and brings everyone to a large, green island.… (mer)

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JennyArch | Apr 11, 2024 |

The Tree and the River av Aaron Becker

PreS-Gr 2—Nature bites back after a tree and a river cohabit in a bucolic and wordless setting as humans overbuild.
A catastrophic event wipes the slate clean, while tiny acorns reboot the process by the last page. This meditation on
time, climate change, and humanity presents an otherworldly command of watercolor-like paintings for children.

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BackstoryBooks | 9 andra recensioner | Apr 1, 2024 |