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A racy, rhythmical picture book from a dynamic picture book duo

A little girl wants to visit her father AND she wants to learn to ride her bicycle, which seems to her the perfect reason to persuade him to help her learn. She has all the trouble with balancing and speed control that every learner remembers – but at last she is whipping down the path in the park screaming: “It’s all right – you can let go now.” But Dad sees his daughter speeding away and he wonders: will she really come back to him?

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Megan is nervous about learning to ride a bike. What if she falls? ...

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Overview

A racy, rhythmical picture book from a dynamic picture book duo

A little girl wants to visit her father AND she wants to learn to ride her bicycle, which seems to her the perfect reason to persuade him to help her learn. She has all the trouble with balancing and speed control that every learner remembers – but at last she is whipping down the path in the park screaming: “It’s all right – you can let go now.” But Dad sees his daughter speeding away and he wonders: will she really come back to him?

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Megan is nervous about learning to ride a bike. What if she falls? Not to worry, as Daddy helps her get through the first big solo ride.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Learning to ride a two-wheeler is an indisputable milestone for kids, but Willis and Ross (previously teamed for What Did I Look Like When I Was a Baby?) mine it for even deeper emotional significance-with mixed results. Megan wants her father to teach her to ride her bike so she can "ride to you,/ From Mom's house over to yours." He agrees, and with the promise to his daughter that he "won't let go,/ Not until you say," she overcomes her last-minute fears: "I think I'm ready/ to go now, Dad./ Daddy, don't let go!/ Don't.../ Okay,/ you can let go now!" Set mostly in an urban park populated by cyclists of widely varying skills, Ross's fluid, editorial-style watercolors convey the heady sense of membership and mastery that courses through the novice cyclist (Megan imagines the park transformed into a path that winds past a tiger and a mandrill). But the book stumbles in the final pages, when Megan's achievement moves Daddy to tears. In the book's only close-up, the father's face turns a melancholy rose; as a teardrop descends his cheek, he makes the admission that "I was scared too today-/ Scared you would never come back to me/ Now that you can ride away." Megan calmly reassures her dad, but the ending makes the book into a sop to grownups rather than a triumph for Megan. Ages 4-8. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
From The Critics
The British team of Willis and Ross here collaborate on their second book. This time it is a sweet foray into daughter-and-divorced-father relationships. The metaphor used is learning to ride a bicycle. Young Megan very badly wants to learn, but she's already scarred a knee. And besides, she is scared. Daddy is her hoped for support—and he comes through with flying colors as the two wander through town and parks in search of the perfect liftoff moment. Jeanne Willis's verse is non-intrusive and manages to be movingly sentimental, yet not mawkish. Tony Ross's pen-and-watercolor sketches are appropriately breezy with a nice touch of added whimsy. (There is a charming background story about a dog and cat chase that weaves between the main plot and has an equally moving dénouement.) Ross's style has been influenced by Quentin Blake, but gently so. Either as a relationship story or just a primer on how best to go about training for that first bike ride, this picture book is a winner. 2003, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Ages 3 to 6.
— Kathleen Karr

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780399240089
  • Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
  • Publication date: 5/12/2003
  • Edition description: First American
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 9.06 (w) x 11.74 (h) x 0.34 (d)
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