But I will always be there when you land.” Narrator: “What if the world around us is filled with hate?” Road: “Lead it to love.” Narrator: “What if I feel stuck?” Road: “Keep going.” De Moyencourt illustrates this colloquy with luminous scenes of a small, brown-skinned child, face turned away from viewers so all they see is a mop of blond curls. “Everyone falls at some point, said the Road. The Road’s dialogue and the narration are set in a chunky, sans-serif type with no quotation marks, so the one flows into the other confusingly.
“What if I fall?” worries the narrator in a stylized, faux hand-lettered type Wade’s Instagram followers will recognize. The Road’s twice-iterated response-“Be a leader and find out”-bookends a dialogue in which a traveler’s anxieties are answered by platitudes. Opening by asking readers, “Have you ever wanted to go in a different direction,” the unnamed narrator describes having such a feeling and then witnessing the appearance of a new road “almost as if it were magic.” “Where do you lead?” the narrator asks. 6-10)įrom an artist, poet, and Instagram celebrity, a pep talk for all who question where a new road might lead. Any child who’s had to suffer a time-out will relate to this one. Barrows and Blackall deliver another laugh-out-loud Pancake Court romp that derives its humor from the very believable characters and chemistry of the neighborhood children.
Readers familiar with the redoubtable pair ( Ivy + Bean Take Care of the Babysitter, 2008, etc.) will not be surprised to find that the plan gets off to a bumpy start (when Bean screams “BRA!” killjoy Dino just declares it “boring,” not bad) but then moves thrillingly into unimagined, escalating realms of badness. When standing still and thinking nice thoughts doesn’t do the trick, though, the two hatch a scheme bound to succeed: Bean will be as bad as she can be, and Ivy will reform her. Francis, she is trying to be “pure of heart” in the hopes of luring birds and maybe even a wolf. How hard can it be to be bad? When a morning of “bad choices” finds Bean sent outside, she sees pal Ivy standing with outstretched arms.
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