What Is A River? - Monika Vaicenaviciene (Hardback) 15-04-2021 Winner of A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021 2021 (United States) and A Marginalian Best Children's Book of 2021 2021.

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A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021 A Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) Loveliest Children's Book of 2021 "What is a river?" an inquisitive young girl asks her grand mother as the pair sits together on the river's banks. Like many questions posed by curious children, this one is deceptively simple in its asking. Yet, its answer spans the very world itself: geography and history, science and religion, industry and environmentalism. Through author-illustrator Monika Vaicenaviciene's eyes, the river becomes a vessel for enormous complexity, a lens through which the interconnectedness of our shared earth can be understood. Show more