Small Fry Pick of the Week: Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle

 Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle by Chris Raschka

Chris Raschka, author or the wordlessly precious and evocative A Ball for Daisy, once again inspires readers to respond to his characters with empathy and joy using simple watercolor illustrations.  In his new picture book, a young girl starts to learn how to ride a bike. Readers follow her from her first moment of excitement at choosing the "perfect" bike to the nervous anticipation while watching all the other people ride; the trials and tribulations of training wheels and, the inevitable falling down, getting up, and falling down again.

Facial expressions are subtle but convey so perfectly what those feelings are that every little kid has when taking the first bike ride. A perfect title to share with your little peddler.

Click on the title to place it on hold at the Ventress Memorial Library!

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