When Daddy Comes Home! My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

My papi has a motorcycle.

When I hear his gray truck pull into our driveway, I run outside with both of our helmets.

Papi is careful with my ponytail as he pulls my helmet tight.

Daisy feels so special, her arms wrapped around her father's chest, toodling around town, startling the cats and making dogs bark. They zoom past her grandmother's church and the market, where she exchanges nods with the librarian, and she waves at her grandparents in their front yard. Her friend calls out to her as she rolls past.

"DAISY!"

She looks sadly at the shop, now closed, where she and Papi used to stop for fruit-flavored ices, but as they head for home, there is a happy surprise!-- a fruit ices seller's cart with her favorite flavor, right in front of their house.

Time with Dad is special, in Isabel Quintero's portrait of family life in a friendly town, My Papi Has a Motorcycle (Penguin Books, 2019), so poignantly evoked in the warm and detailed illustrations of artist Zeke Pena. Sharing experiences is one of the many ways to be a good dad, and Pena's detailed and joyful illustrations make feelings between parent and child come alive. Says Booklist's starred review, "A heartwarming story that centers joy in the midst of looming change."