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MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE

Zeke Pena Isabel Quintero

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 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.


Isabel Quintero was born and raised by Mexican immigrant parents in Southern California's Inland Empire. She earned her BA in English and her MA in English Composition at California State University, San Bernardino. Her debut YA novel, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, won the 2015 Morris Award for Debut YA Fiction and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award.

Zeke Peña is a cartoonist and illustrator from El Paso, Texas. He studied Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and is self-taught in illustration and painting. He has published work with VICE.com, Latino USA, The Believer Magazine, The Nib, Penguin Random House, Holt/Macmillan and Cinco Puntos Press. In 2018 he received the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for a graphic biography he illustrated titled Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. You can see more of his work at zpvisual.com.
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Published 2019-05-14 by Kokila / Penguin Random House

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Published 2019-05-14 by Kokila / Penguin Random House

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A book that radiates sheer happiness without shying from reality. Highly recommended for all libraries.

...There's no earthshaking story, just the sweet rumble of family love, neighborhood pride, the dignity of work and the joy of a fast ride. Yet Quintero^s warm, economical text and the desert-sunset tones of Pena's comics-inflected art fell like a revelation.

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.

MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE by Isabel Quintero and illustrated by Zeke Peña has received Pura Belpré Illustrator Honors.

...All of this - plus the text's nuanced alliteration, its use of Spanglish, and the realistic linguistic mix in the illustrations (even the cat says both meow and miau) - marks the quotidian speci city shaping Daisy's memory-making as well as her loving re ections on Corona's unfolding changes, its history and future.

MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE has been picked as a PW Best Book of the Year!

This is a heartwarming story that centers joy in the midst of looming change.