Roller Coaster
The roller coaster car is going up, up, up to the highest spot. And one of the people in the car has never ridden on a roller coaster... ever.
From Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Marla Frazee, a thrilling picture book that takes readers up, up, up to the highest point of a roller coaster, where no book has ever gone before! Wheeeeeeee!
Awards
Winner of the 2023 Phoenix Picture Book Award
Starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Bulletin, Booklist, and Kirkus
Parent's Choice Award
New York Times Book Review
"The List" New York Public Library 100 Books for Reading and Sharing, 2003
Riverbank Review Best Books of 2003
Parenting Magazine Best Books of 2003
Children's Literature Council of Southern California 2004 Award for "Excellence and Exuberance in a Picture Book"
Reviews
“Marla Frazee has done the seemingly impossible: written and illustrated a book about a roller-coaster ride that is virtually as heart-in-mouth terrifying as the actual.”
–Parent's Choice Gold Award
★ “A rambunctious tour de force from an abundantly gifted author-artist.”
–Booklist, starred review
★ “Capturing both the train's breathtaking speed and a hilarious range of rider reactions with consumate skill, the artist... is once again in top form.”
–Kirkus, starred review
★ “The subject affords a marvelous showcase for Frazee's expressive watercolors: the widely variable responses of the riders supply sustained theatre as the train hurtles through space, with degrees of ecstasy (or agony) triggered by each twist and turn.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Think of the faces of the people in line for the roller coaster as a study in human psychology: the eager patrons, the apprehensive ones, the no-thanks-maybe-later ones and the not on your life ones... Marla Frazee takes the reader at high velocity through a roller coaster ride from start to finish.”
–New York Times Book Review