by Kate Hoefler (Author) Sarah Jacoby (Illustrator)
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Timid Rabbit sticks close to home, where his friend Dog regales him daily with tales of his motorbike adventures as a young dog, including "the places he'd felt most alive, where he'd howled at the moon." In textural watercolor and mixed-media spreads, Jacoby (Forever or a Day) renders Dog as a dashing terrier in a black leather jacket; Rabbit, wearing blue overalls, exudes emotion. In a depiction of a vicarious, imagined ride, the two zoom across a spread, leaving a ribbon of color behind them. Then one day, Dog doesn't appear, and grieving Rabbit finds himself the owner of a motorbike. Hoefler (Great Big Things) describes Rabbit's trepidation and conflicted feelings with lilting prose: "He hoped the bike would like not going anywhere." But at his own, inch-by-inch rate, he conquers his fear. When he does set out at last, Jacoby's spreads of the towering trees and expansive beaches he discovers deliver excitement and triumph. Alongside its elements of risk and loud noise, the story's treatment of death and anxiety makes it a quiet, inward-turned tale. Ages 5-8. Agent: Steve Malk, Writers House. (Sept.)
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.Kate Hoefler is the author of Real Cowboys, Great Big Things, and Rabbit and the Motorbike. She loves feeling connected to people (and to dogs), and also loves how being notice-ers in books helps us to be notice-ers in the world. She makes her home in Ohio with her two children and with a small dog not unlike the dog in this book. She is forever grateful for being able to walk this story home with Corinna.
Corinna Luyken is the award-winning author-illustrator of The Book of Mistakes and the New York Times best-selling My Heart. She also illustrated Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have A Horse, written by Marcy Campbell. She lives in Olympia, Washington, with her husband, daughter, and two cats. You can see more of her work at www.corinnaluyken.com