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Julie Morstad‘s delicate, whimsical illustrations capture the free spirit of a French woman who made a solo trip on a motorcycle around the world in 1973. The text is by Amy Novesky, who interviewed Anne-France Dautheville at her home near Paris before writing this, and includes the challenges she faced like mechanical trouble, falls & harsh weather. But the people she met were wonderful. (Dautheville wasn‘t a girl btw; she was 29.) #kidlit

What a young woman packs for a motorcycle trip around the world.

On her solo motorcycle trip around the world, Anne-France Dautheville stopped at a hot spring I know well: Liard! It‘s on the Alaska highway in the Yukon Territory and it is a great place to relax after a day on the road.

I want the world to be beautiful, and it is beautiful. I want people to be good, and they are good.
-Anne-France Dautheville

Such a fun picture books about a girl traveling the world.