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AUGUST 2026 UNCORRECTED PROOF NOT FOR SALE From the Caldecott Honor-winning creators of A Different Pond Phi & Bui RIDE / ĐẠP XEAccolades for A Different Pond Caldecott Honor Book Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winner Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor Washington Post Best Children’s Books of the Year Huffington Post Best Picture Books of the Year The Boston Globe Best Children’s and YA Books of the Year School Library Journal Best Picture Books of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) Horn Book Fanfare Booklist Editor’s Choice Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year New York Public Library Best Books for Kids Featured on the TODAY Show A letter from the editor: Ride/ Đạp Xe is the fifth book I have had the privilege of working on with author, poet, and activist Bao Phi. Themes of family, fatherhood, inclusivity, identity, and community are stitched through his work, with threads both fine and delicate. Bao’s passion for equity and justice resounds in his stories, with deep echoes of his spoken word poetry. “To me, his English sounds like gentle rain.” (A Different Pond, 2017) “The three of them hold hands . . . so that together their shadows form a great wingspan.” (My Footprints, 2019) “You are a song that needs no translation.” (You Are Life, 2022) As in A Different Pond, this new story explores the joys and pains of immigration and the boundless love of a parent for a child. It was important to Bao that this story be told in two languages. Rather than a straight translation, Bao chose to tell the story twice—once in English and once in Vietnamese, allowing each voice from his life to speak in its own way. We hope that readers and listeners will celebrate the unique differences and also find comfort in the familiar. My dad taught me to ride a bike, his hand on the back of my green and white banana seat, running along the crunchy gravel of Mrs. Bryngelson’s long driveway next door. Who taught you? — Kristen McCurry Mohnby Bao Phi illustrated by Thi Bui How to say Đạp Xe:(dahp SEH)“I’m afraid,” I say. “I can’t do it.” Mẹ ơi! Con không đi được! (Mom! I can’t!)“It feels that way, but you can,” Dad says. Con làm được mà, con yêu! (You can do it, my baby!) I climb on.Dad hangs on to the back seat to help me balance as I pedal— once, twice, three times.Mẹ giúp tôi ngồi lên xe. Một, hai, ba! (Mom helps me on the bike. One, two, three!)Next >