[font #000000][font fraunces 48px][i][b]Ride / Đạp Xe[/i][/b][/font]
[font #000000][font fraunces 18px] by Bao Phi; illustrated by Thi Bui
Jacketed Hardcover - ISBN 9781684363711
$18.99 US / $25.99 CAN
32 pages
Ages 5–8[/font]
From the Caldecott Honor-winning creators of [i]A Different Pond[/i] comes a new picture book that encompasses three generations, two languages, and one universal experience. This bilingual story in English and Vietnamese explores a child’s trust, a parent’s guiding hand, and the paradox of loving and letting go.
Learning to ride a bike requires a leap of faith, and as a father teaches his child to ride, the child worries that Dad will let go before they’re ready. But with patience and persistence, father and child learn together that pedaling and letting go are part of the same thrilling ride.
★ In parallel stories of two children—across landscapes, languages, and time frames—learning to ride a bike, collaborators Phi and Bui (A Different Pond) offer a truly moving intergenerational narrative.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Even with decades and thousands of miles between them, these two parallel storylines show the same bond between parent and child and the same drama of learning a new skill. The reader is invited to explore two beautiful, contrasting settings, in long horizontal scenes that propel us forward through the story. . . . A gentle, glowing palette and clean, tight text bring two worlds to life on the page here, as the creators of A Different Pond ask us once again to look for the parallel storylines in our own lives.
—Molly Beth Griffin, author of Ten Beautiful Things and Everything Grandma Needs
