Give Her the River: A Father's Wish for His Daughter

Touching paintings of a girl and her father accompany the poetry of Give Her the River: A Father's Wish for His Daughter by Michael Dennis Browne, illus. by Wendell Minor. The poem relates the narrator's desire to impart every aspect of the river to his progeny: ""Give her the way the willows lean, how they sway in the green of their dreams.""