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The text suggests the strong bond built by this Afro-Latinx father and daughter with their ongoing project without needing to point it out explicitly, a light touch in a picture book full of delicate, well-drawn moments and precise wording. Rosen uses lively language and well-chosen details to move the story of the baby birds forward. Renata witnesses the birth of four chicks as their rosy eggs split open “like coats that are suddenly too small.” Renata finds at a crucial moment that she can help the chicks learn to fly, even with the bittersweet knowledge that it will only hasten their exits from her life. Rather than seeing it as an unfortunate delay of their project, Renata and Papi decide to let the avian carpenters continue their work. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom.

Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window.

Graceful text and evocative illustrations combine in this story about the rewards of facing fears and trying something new.Ī home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. The book adroitly combines spot illustrations and double-page spreads to establish and control the story’s elegant, thoughtful pace. One illustration, a double-page spread of a beach from an overhead perspective, is initially disorienting, then exhilarating. Illustrator Jacoby’s smudgy, delicate illustrations depict these changes-both in Rabbit’s appearance and demeanor and in the story’s landscape-with an evocative, textural style that heightens the story’s emotion.

Author Hoefler takes a well-used theme and infuses it with a graceful poetic cadence that reads like a firelight tale as she relates how, yes, Rabbit does eventually work up the courage to travel on the motorbike, and yes, does come home again, enriched and changed. Rabbit is surprised that Dog leaves his motorbike to him, and he stores it away, admitting that he is too scared to use it. But one day Dog dies, an event touchingly illustrated with an image of Rabbit sitting on his porch steps with drooping ears and drooping flowers. Instead, he waits for Dog-more sartorially adventurous in a black leather-fringed jacket, appropriate for motorbike travel-to visit and tell him stories of the road. Rabbit, anthropomorphically attired in overalls, lives in a wheat field that he never leaves. A fearful rabbit finds the courage to broaden his horizons in this picture book.