«A River» of Marc Martin

In Marc Martin’s book, the power of children’s imagination transforms an ordinary river into an endless journey: cities, jungles, sunlit fields, forests with deer, and the ocean. The girl floats along the river in a small boat, and on each spread a new landscape unfolds before her. Martin uses collage, colored pencils, and paint to create depth and texture, while the horizontal pages make the river continuous, turning the boat and the girl into part of a larger whole, where the ocean with whales and schools of fish seems just within reach.