num_pages: 40
description: I Want to Ride the Tap Tap is a day-of-the-week picture book about a Black family who ride the taxi-bus service--called a tap tap--in Haiti and the fascinating people they meet along the way.Monday through Saturday Claude and Manman walk Papa to the tap tap stop where Claude meets all sorts of interesting people waiting for the tap tap. Claude wants to join Papa but Claude has classes at school and chores at home...On Sunday Manman and Papa have a surprise for Claude--a ride on the tap tap! They go to the beach where they meet a lady selling mangoes a fisherman a straw-hat maker a steel drummer and an artist. They show Claude how to fish make hats play the drums and paint.
language: English
title: I Want to Ride the Tap Tap
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)