Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley. ( )

Great book for children who immigrated from one land to another.

This book demonstrates a refugee story. The illustrations are amazing, happy, bright, and cartoon like. I really enjoyed this book because every page you were excited to read and hoping they became friends. ( )

This is a great story that starts in a refugee camp and takes a boy and his mother to America. The illustrations are wonderful and add so much to this story. The colours and style are a perfect match.

Joseph and his mother live in a refugee camp. He wants to ride a bicycle that is owned by an older boy in the camp but he is too small. When the bike needs repair, Joseph gladly helps him get his bike up and running. He dreams that some day he will ride a bike.

He and his mother finally leave the camp to fly off to America where they start a band-new life. It is strange and a little scary in the new country. When he looks out his window and spots a red bicycle down on the sidewalk below, he wants to find out who it belongs to so he can ask to ride it. He discovers it belongs to a girl that lives in his apartment building. He calls her Whoosh because of her long, unruly hair that twirls and twists and blows freely in the wind when she is riding the bike. Even though they are in the same class, live in the same apartment building and Joseph makes her pictures, she does not offer to let him ride her bike. When she asks Joseph his name, he is mumbling about riding the bike and says "Tomorrow, hey". That becomes her name for him.

Whoosh accidentally crashes her bike and luckily Joseph, with his skills learned while repairing the bike in the refugee camp, is there to fix it for her ride once again. Whoosh is so grateful to Joseph, that in return for his help she offers to let him ride her bike. There's only one problem... Joseph doesn't know how! With determination and a few crashes along the way he finally succeeds and releases a great shout of victory. "Yes!!!" Joseph's dream has finally come true.

Everyone is not as privileged as we are and it is a perfect book to highlight that we should be very grateful for all that we have. A great book to read to school aged children to discuss being grateful and how to help others.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for and honest review. ( )