The River

A river. A house in the middle of the river. A dreamy bear sitting on the roof of the house. Shouldn’t we leave… Then again, where to? Who with? Thus began a quiet journey. The illustrations prompt the reader to ask questions, without any pressure to give answers. A winding path, an encounter with a friendly wolf, a starry night, a sledge that seems to beckon the reader to toboggan down to… a river, and all the way downstream suddenly pops up a house, at the top of a hill. Indeed, this journey is deceptively just playful: it’s an initiation.