When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there.
With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change. It's a celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo.
"When Papi gets home from work in his gray truck, his daughter is ready for their ritual, a nightly motorcycle ride.... Fresh graphic novel style art offers all the glory of a ride ('VROOOM'), and speech in balloons is a mix of Spanish and English alongside the English-only text. The love between the girl and her father is palpable, but her connection to her city (fleshed out in an author’s note about Corona, Calif.) is at the story’s heart." — Publishers Weekly
Recommended Age | 5 - 9 |
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Author | Isabel Quintero |
Illustrator | Zeke Peña |
ISBN | 052555341X |
Publication Date | May 14, 2019 |
Publisher | Kokila |
Language | English |