Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv are a husband-and-wife team of artists who collaborate on books and other projects through their art studio Agrafka. They were both born in Ukraine in 1984 and studied at the Lviv Art College of Decorative and Applied Art. The pair have been members of PEN Ukraine since 2019 and live and work in Lviv, Ukraine. Their picture book How War Changed Rondo, also published by Enchanted Lion, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2021, a USBBY Outstanding International Book of 2022, and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2022. Oksana Lushchevska is a Ukrainian writer and translator. She is the author of over 40 children's and young adult books, which have received several Ukrainian children's literature awards and have been included in the White Ravens Catalog and shortlisted for the BBC Ukraine Children's Book Award. Oksana has a PhD in education and previously taught children's literature courses at the University of Georgia. Now, she lives in Pennsylvania and is both an author and a children's literature consultant.

"In this Ukrainian import, husband-and-wife team Romanyshyn and Lesiv use bright, retro infographics to examine the concept of movement... A wide range of information follows, encompassing the invention of the wheel 6,000 years ago, ancient paths traveled for trade and pilgrimages, forms of exploration (space and seafaring), a consideration of time travel, and much-needed advice to 'rest and reflect' by writing in one's travelogue... Vocabulary definitions abound... The action-packed graphics themselves nearly spill off the page, and the italicized text seems to be in perpetual motion... One figure recurs--reminiscent of the Belgian cartoon character Tintin. Sophisticated graphics, laden with information."-- "Kirkus Reviews"

STARRED REVIEW! ★ "In a wide-angle, graphically inspired picture book originally published in Ukraine, Romanyshyn and Lesiv combine history with meditative insights on the theme of movement. Paired to propulsive, minimalist scenes that combine simplified images of many-wheeled, winged, and floating objects with horizontal lines, arrows, and other iconography indicating progressions in various directions at increasing speeds, the spare narrative points to technological highlights, from prehistoric foot coverings to modern spacecraft... For all its brevity, this title provides a profound exploration of the fundamental notion that everything moves."

-- "Booklist"

"Good for whetting young appetites, highlighting different areas kids can pursue and look more deeply into."--Betsy Bird "A Fuse #8 Production (A School Library Journal blog)"

Publisher: Enchanted Lion

Pub date: 2025-05-20

Length: 64 pages