NIGHT RIDE

Take an unforgettable ride through the city.

A twisting, abstract staircase dominates the captivating opening spread as a Black cyclist carries a bike down, down, down. Below, friends wait astride their own bicycles, ready to ride. The group embarks on a jubilant nighttime ride across New York City, whizzing through the streets with hands in the air. New Yorkers will delight in spotting iconic landmarks, including the New York Public Library’s lions, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Guggenheim, and the glowing marquees of Broadway. The cyclists travel through Manhattan and across the Brooklyn Bridge in an inviting spread that must be turned sideways to capture the bridge’s towering height. Large-scale stained-glass panels were designed, assembled, and photographed to create each page, giving the artwork a luminous, electric quality. Deep jewel tones blaze across the spreads, while bold geometric shapes fracture the city into kaleidoscopic shards of light and movement. Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Myers’ visuals serve as fine art in motion, experimenting with perspective, shape, and abstraction in ways that help to expand the picture-book form itself. Every page feels gallery-worthy, capturing the exhilaration of biking through the city with friends, though the tale’s visual triumph overpowers any sense of narrative arc. All the cyclists have brown skin.

A radiant celebration of Black joy, bikes, and New York City.