The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker Diaries & Journals Ryuto Miyake is an illustrator

Ryuto Miyake is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Tokyo

welcome to the community of therapeutic and joyful adoptive families

hand-drawn illustrations are loved the world over by those who have colored in (sometimes more than once) her bestselling books Ivy and the Inky Butterfly

I realized that for both groups the sanctity of childhood had been breached

an electric bright hummingbird

The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker Diaries & Journals Ryuto Miyake is an illustratorA spectacular time lapse portrait of humankind and our impact on the natural world from a Caldecott Honor winning master of the wordless form In an alternate past or possible future a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to