STARRED REVIEW! ?"Along the lines of Blexbolex's Seasons (2010), an immersive visual experience that richly rewards patient attention."
Kirkus

Italian illustrator Alessandro Sanna exposes the remarkable sensitivity that gossamer connection between between the physicality of the land and our transcendent experience of the passage of time, the inner seasonality of being human. Through his soft watercolors shines the immutable light of existence... Glowing with quiet optimism, Sanna's vibrant, expressive illustrations whisper to us that, despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and, above all, ever-flowing.
Brain Pickings

Italian illustrator Sanna paints hundreds of watercolors of the country's Po River, arranging the thin, wide panoramas on the pages like photos in an album. Wordless stories, one for each season, are prefaced by passages of lyrical prose.... The myriad images of the Po in rain, sun, at dusk and dawn give readers a deeper sense of its allure.
Publishers Weekly

Travel through four seasons along the Po River in this breathtakingly beautiful book. Made almost entirely of watercolor images shown as either full-page or a series of panels, this book asks readers to pay close attention to the images and discover the story told there. Each season starts with a brief paragraph that offers clues to what is going to happen. Autumn is a season of floods. Winter is described as warm, which will surprise many young readers as will the newborn calf. Spring is music and white clouds. Summer is dry and hot. Each of those seasons is brought to life with the watercolor images with palettes that change through the seasons, purples in autumn, blues in winter, gold in summer. Each more beautiful than the last, so that you just want to begin it again when it ends... Beautiful, moving and vast, this nearly wordless picture book will be enjoyed by elementary aged children through adults.
Waking Brain Cells