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Ben Rides On (2013)

by Matt Davies(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1596437944 (ISBN13: 9781596437944)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: Ben has a brand new bicycle that he is very excited about. He rides it to school and it immediately gets stolen by the school bully. After school is out for the day, Ben starts walking home. He sees his bike all bent up and damaged. He also sees the bully hanging from a tree about to fall from a cliff. He starts to go home with his broken bike, but turns around to help the bully. When the bully arrives to safety, he grabs the bike and takes off! Ben can't believe it! The next morning, he finds a surprise--his bike almost perfectly fixed at his front gate.Good for preschool or older kid storytimes.
review 2: My 4 yr old had a passionate response to this book but not in a positive way. He told me he hated the book and to never ,ever read it again. Ooooook... moreay,then. So, I read it to myself. It's a simple story about a bully taking a kids bike with a nice but unrealistic ending. But hey...the unrealistic ending might give kids the mention to believe that there's good in everyone and everything will work out ok when someone does a mean thing. I tried to pinpoint what my kid hated so much about the book and I think it's the illustrations. My teenager described the illustration of the main character as "creepy" and added, "He looks like a 30 year old stoner." And the bully reminds me of John Goodman, so that's kinda sad. less

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