Helen Plum Library

"Full-color photos and simple text introduce different styles of bicycles"-- Provided by publisher

Illustrations and brief text evoke a bicycle ride, with its ups and downs, sweeping turns, and vivid views

"The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force...

Injured in a bicycle accident, Zack discovers that his alien houseguest has swiped his brakes, placing Zack's baseball season in jeopardy while subjecting him to an annoying little brother

Children watch in amazement as the bicycle food deliverers of Tokyo stack their noodle bowls like architects, zip through the city like acrobats, and deliver delicious noodles to students, office workers, and families

A girl tries and tries again to learn to ride a bicycle and all her friends provide words of encouragement

Caldecott Honor winner David Shannon applies his wonderful off-beat humor to the story of a duck who decides to try riding a bike--and loves it! One day down on the farm, Duck got a wild idea. "I bet I could ride a bike," he thought. He waddled over to where the boy parked his bike, climbed on and began to ride. At first he rode slowly and he wobbled a lot, but it was fun! Duck rode past Cow and waved to her. "Hello, Cow!" said Duck. "Moo," said Cow....

Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father

Tom tells all about his bicycle, his ride to work past trucks, cars, and even elephants, and his job as a circus performer

"Penny loves her bike! It takes her to lots of fun places!"--Back cover