"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to biking. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

Learning to ride a bike is an important part of growing up. Those first pedals down the sidewalk open up a new world on the wheels of a young reader's bike. This book puts beginning readers behind the handlebars of these machines and all the places they can go. From a trip to the park to a ride to school, bikes are the perfect way to travel the neighborhood. Young readers experience these joys through accessible text paired with vibrant full-color...

Today if you visit Amsterdam, you'll see bikes everywhere - they rule the road! But that wasn't always the case. Fifty years ago, Amsterdam was so crowded with vehicles that bicyclists could hardly move. But moms and kids relied on their bikes to get from place to place in the city. What were they to do? Women like Maartje Rutten and her friends led protests against the unsafe streets, and one day a whole swarm of women and children took over the...