eBranch Blog

July 24, 2006

Wheels Spinning...Kids Bicycling Book List

This year's Summer Reading Program theme is Reading: The Sport of Champions. Our newest book list is for those of you who love the free wheeling feeling of Bicycling. Cycle on over for picture books, easy readers, fiction, and nonfiction books.

David Shannon. Duck on a Bike
A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

Claudia Mills. Gus and Grandpa and the Two-Wheeled Bike
Gus doesn't want to give up the training wheels on his bike, even for a new five-speed bicycle, until Grandpa helps him learn how to get along without them.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe. The Big Bike Race
Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C., Citywide Cup bicycle race are shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky, yellow bike for his tenth birthday.

Steve Cole. Kids Easy Bike Care
A guide to maintaining a bicycle in good operating condition including step-by-step tune-up instructions, a before-every-ride safety checklist, preparing an emergency kit, and making simple roadside repairs.