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Everyone Can Learn To Ride A Bicycle (2013)

by Chris Raschka(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0375870075 (ISBN13: 9780375870071)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Schwartz & Wade

review 1: "Everyone Can learn to Ride a Bicycle" is an “utterly simple picture book” about learning how to ride a bicycle. Anyone learning to ride a bike will appreciate the trials that the young girl in this book experiences while she is learning. Raschka tells, and shows, a grandpa helping his granddaughter with bikes; choosing a bike, training wheels, how to get up when you fall, staying determined and finally learning a skills that will be with you forever. The pictures help to tell the story by showing what the words are not telling. For example, the girl falls off her bike and the only words are “Oops! You nearly had it”, while the pictures shows the girls on the ground off of her bike. This book would be perfect for kindergarteners to read before the classic “bike t... moreo school day”, or even in an older classroom as a practice of how to explain a process in your writing. Students can make their own stories to explain a process. I love that this is a story that everyone can relate to, however I thought this made it almost too predictable.
review 2: I gave this a quick read and have not read it to a child. I was underwhelmed by the story, which straight forwardly conveys the long process of learning to ride a bike: raise the training wheels, fall over, take the wheels off, fall over, go down a hill, fall over. Persist and you will learn to ride a bike. (oops, hope that wasn't a spoiler) The scenario could have been enlivened by charming illustrations, but I found the watercolor images muddy, really unappealing and unvaried. less

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