Eye-catching, informative, and offering hours of fun, On the Move is the perfect nonfiction book about motion in all its forms from a pair of Ukraine’s leading contemporary artists.
When was the first shoe invented? What's the longest distance an animal has ever traveled? How does time travel work? All these questions—and more!—are answered in On the Move, a dazzling illustrated book that explores movement through a variety of lenses, from geography to anthropology, tourism, adventuring, physics, and everything in between.
Perfect for children and parents, teachers and librarians, and anyone curious to learn about the way things work, On the Move is brimming with fascinating facts and thought-provoking reflections about how people, animals, and the elements move around, both throughout history and to this day. It's also an excellent book for artists and designers who are interested in composition and the spatial arrangement of information—with bold graphic design and vivid Pantone colors that burst off the page!
Praise
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."
—A Fuse #8 Production (A School Library Journal blog), Betsy Bird
“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
