Night Driving - Reviews |
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New York Times Book Review |
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Most picture books are bright, colorful affairs, as noisy as childhood itself, so it comes as a relief when you occasionally encounter a quiet one. If the book is also as fine and thoughtful as ''Night Driving,'' which marks the picture-book debut of both the writer John Coy and the illustrator Peter McCarty, it's worth taking note. |
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Turning Pages to Children's Pleasures |
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...The narrator and his father drive all night to get to the mountains where they plan to camp out. They talk, they listen to a baseball game, they sign, they stop for breakfast in a diner. Soft gray pencil drawings capture the moonlit world through which they make their sleepy way to the sound of “the thp, thp, thp of tires rolling over the cracks in the road.”... |
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– Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
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Amazon.com |
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The luminous pencil drawings of Peter McCarty that illustrate Night Driving capture the simple, memorable story of a young boy's nighttime car ride with Dad. Cruising rural highways, watching the stars, and listening to a ball game on the radio on the way to the mountains for a camping trip--this is the stuff of permanent childhood memories. John Coy's prose captures the events and feeling of that trip in a subtle, beautiful style. |
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