The Long Ride Home

Ebook
On sale Jun 28, 2022 | 40 Pages | 9780593426043

A tender picture book that celebrates memories and friendship about a young koala and a friend who has moved away.

Little Koala has a long ride home, and every place her mother passes invokes a memory of her best friend: the ice cream shop where they giggled uncontrollably; the hill in the park where they crashed their bikes (that memory also lives on as a little scar on Koala’s knee), the library where they borrowed their favorite book again and again.
 
Koala’s friendship blooms beautifully on the page, seamlessly interwoven with the ride home, and soon we learn just why these memories are so important: Koala’s friend has moved away. The story ends on a lovely note of hope: Koala and her friend are still close, despite the distance.
 
The Long Ride Home is a universal and broadly appealing friendship story that explores the power of memory with tenderness, warmth, and heart. Stephanie Graegin expertly balances the bittersweet sensations of cherishing a moment long past with artwork that is rendered in soft, sepia hues in a way that only she can.
 



 
STEPHANIE GRAEGIN makes books for hedgehogs and humans of all ages. She spends her days and nights observing, recording and drawing the adventures of her hedgehog friends and neighbors in her Tiny Bean's Big Adventures series. Her picture books include Little Fox in the Forest, which received multiple starred reviews, as well as Fern and Otto and The Long Ride Home. Stephanie has also illustrated numerous other children's books, such as the Heartwood Hotel series and the Book Buddies chapter book series. She lives in New York. View titles by Stephanie Graegin

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A tender picture book that celebrates memories and friendship about a young koala and a friend who has moved away.

Little Koala has a long ride home, and every place her mother passes invokes a memory of her best friend: the ice cream shop where they giggled uncontrollably; the hill in the park where they crashed their bikes (that memory also lives on as a little scar on Koala’s knee), the library where they borrowed their favorite book again and again.
 
Koala’s friendship blooms beautifully on the page, seamlessly interwoven with the ride home, and soon we learn just why these memories are so important: Koala’s friend has moved away. The story ends on a lovely note of hope: Koala and her friend are still close, despite the distance.
 
The Long Ride Home is a universal and broadly appealing friendship story that explores the power of memory with tenderness, warmth, and heart. Stephanie Graegin expertly balances the bittersweet sensations of cherishing a moment long past with artwork that is rendered in soft, sepia hues in a way that only she can.
 



 

Author

STEPHANIE GRAEGIN makes books for hedgehogs and humans of all ages. She spends her days and nights observing, recording and drawing the adventures of her hedgehog friends and neighbors in her Tiny Bean's Big Adventures series. Her picture books include Little Fox in the Forest, which received multiple starred reviews, as well as Fern and Otto and The Long Ride Home. Stephanie has also illustrated numerous other children's books, such as the Heartwood Hotel series and the Book Buddies chapter book series. She lives in New York. View titles by Stephanie Graegin

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