Midnight Motorbike
Too hot to sleep, a girl rides pillion through banyan groves and past painted elephants and temples of stone monkeys, in illustrations that carry the heat.
A girl too hot to sleep is taken by her Amma on a night motorcycle ride through an Indian landscape of banyan groves, painted elephants, silk shops and temples full of stone monkeys. Ishita Jain’s illustrations carry the heat and the dark, and the journey ends the way it should, with a child too full of wonder to stay awake for the rest of it.
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Maria Popova
In Midnight Motorbike (public library), writer Maureen Shay Tajsar and artist Ishita Jain tell the story of a little girl too hot to sleep through the Indian night that “stretches its dark arms beyond the banyan tree grove and the red earth canyon, all the way to the big indigo ocean,” and her Amma, who whisks the child away on the back of her motorcycle in her shimmering sari to tour the bright variousness of the world.
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