Sarah Jacoby - Rabbit and the Motorbike

For those who live in me. Thank you.K. H.To Dad, may you always dream of big adventures.S. J. Text copyright 2019 by Kate Hoefler.
Illustrations copyright 2019 by Sarah Jacoby.
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Title: Rabbit and the motorbike / by Kate Hoefler ; illustrated by Sarah Jacoby.
Description: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2019] | Summary: Rabbit lives, happy and content, in a wheat field, never venturing outside its bounds; but he enjoys old Dogs stories of life on the road with his motorbikeso when Dog dies and leaves Rabbit his bike, Rabbit starts to feel the powerful pull of the open road.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018041273 | ISBN 9781452170909 (hc) | ISBN 9781452171081 (epub2) | ISBN 9781452175461 (epub3) | ISBN 9781452175454 (kindle). | Jacoby, Sarah (Illustrator), illustrator.
Title: Rabbit and the motorbike / by Kate Hoefler ; illustrated by Sarah Jacoby.
Description: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2019] | Summary: Rabbit lives, happy and content, in a wheat field, never venturing outside its bounds; but he enjoys old Dogs stories of life on the road with his motorbikeso when Dog dies and leaves Rabbit his bike, Rabbit starts to feel the powerful pull of the open road.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018041273 | ISBN 9781452170909 (hc) | ISBN 9781452171081 (epub2) | ISBN 9781452175461 (epub3) | ISBN 9781452175454 (kindle).

Subjects: LCSH: RabbitsJuvenile fiction. | DogsJuvenile fiction. | MotorcyclesJuvenile fiction. | FriendshipJuvenile fiction. | CYAC: RabbitsFiction. | MotorcyclesFiction. | FriendshipFiction. | LCGFT: Picture books. | LCGFT: Picture books.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.H62 Rab 2019 | DDC 813.6 [E] dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018041273 Design by Amelia Mack.
Typeset in Requiem.
The illustrations in this book were rendered in watercolor, NuPastel, and mixed media. Chronicle Books LLC
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San Francisco, California 94107
www.chroniclekids.com abbit lived in a quiet field of wheat that he never leftnot even onceeven though there was a road. And even though he dreamed he did every night. Every night. But Dog would visit. Dog made Rabbit feel that wherever hed been,
Rabbit had been right there with him.
Rabbit loved Dog. The world is beautiful, Dog would say, if youre brave enough to see it.
Even new places can feel like long-lost friends. Every day was filled with a good story by Dog. Every day. Until the day it was filled with a bad one. Until the day it was filled with a bad one.

And Rabbits field was quiet again. The days were wheat. Except for one day, when he heard a not-quiet sound. Rabbit didnt know why Dog would leave his motorbike to him, since he didnt go anywhere. He hoped the bike would like not going anywhere. On days Rabbit collected carrots, the motorbike collected leaves.

But not for long. The wind always carried the leaves to faraway places. When birds made nests in its spokes, there was birdsong. But it was a life quieter than a birds. And the birds always left. One night when Rabbit was in the mood for a story, he brought the motorbike in.

But it didnt tell Rabbit any stories, and Rabbit had none to tell it. So they just listened to the distant sounds of the highway. When summer came, everything was growing and blooming. Even the road blossomed out. Rabbit and the motorbike stayed planted on the porch. Because Im scared, he told it one night,
as if it had asked a question.

When Rabbit slept, he heard the long howl of its engine in his dreams. A beautiful howl. Okay, he said softly to the bike one afternoon.Just down the road. But roads are long. Rabbit forgot that. Long roads took him to where the giant redwoods werewhere Rabbit was the wind that carried the leaves.