Old as Stone, Hard as Rock illustrated by Aimée Sicuro “Simple illustrations flash with oversaturated

“Simple illustrations flash with oversaturated hues

and his entire life would be different

Each die-cut page of the layered board book reveals an imaginary boat sailing past Big Bend National Park

” —Growfully

Works for young readers on contemporary non-Western artists are rare

Old as Stone, Hard as Rock illustrated by Aimée Sicuro “Simple illustrations flash with oversaturatedFrom acclaimed Italian artist Alessandro Sanna, an astonishing wordless series of paintings about humans, inhumanity, and war that also contemplates the creative and destructive power of our hands. A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2025 Selected for USBBYs Outstanding International Books List, 2026 A stone falls to the Earth. It picks up speed, rolling down the steep side of a mountain until it comes to rest in an empty plain. But the plain wont remain