A timid young boy joins his eager father for a ride on a roller coaster. After zigzagging through the line, the pair boards the DinoCoaster for a fast-paced ride that takes them lurching and tilting u
"[Luthardt's] amusement-park palette and boldly geometric acrylics pop with energy..." --Publishers Weekly
"The text, which consists of brief rhyming couplets, successfully carries the action. Luthardt's quirky acrylic cartoons make effective use of bright colors and crisp lines and should have substantial child appeal." --School Library Journal
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DIANE ADAMS is an art and writing teacher. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands and has also taken classes at the Art Center College of Design. She is an avid community volunteer, reader, tennis player, hiker, and roller coaster rider. She lives in Redlands, California. This is her first book
KEVIN LUTHARDT is the author-illustrator of Larabee and Peep! and the illustrator of Zoom! He is an artist and muralist whose work appears in galleries and other venues. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Luthardt regularly visits elementary schools across the country where he delights young children with an interactive program. He lives with his family in Skokie, Illinois.
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