London-based artist and illustrator Nicolas Burrows created a book for both children and the young at heart that plays with concepts of sound and colour. Its visual sequence uses bold colours and block images combined with easy language to reinterpret our world. His imagining of the natural environment which surrounds us lends a fresh perspective on how we can see, hear, touch, and experience the everyday. Clearly drawing from a visual practice concerned with formal aspects of harmony, improvisation, composition, and colour, ?How it is?? is a warm encouragement of curiosity, observation, and appreciating the simple things in nature and life. 36 p, ills colour, 27 x 17 cm, pb, English