Josh and Aaron loved to sit and watch the river flow gently past their house. Together they made up stories about it, and always they wondered—where did the river begin?

In majestic landscape paintings Thomas Locker takes readers along on the boys' journey with their grandfather to find the answer. Here are the many moods of nature, richly rendered: the special quality of early morning light that illuminates the hikers' first steps; the clear blue sky that accompanies them over meadows and up foothills to the river's source; the flash of lightning that bursts through the night's darkness on the way home, throwing their tent into eerie relief.

And here, too, is the course of companionship that flows between a man and his grandsons, lovingly traced—as constant and deep as the river itself.

From the dust jacket