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Where are all the car-free books?
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Posted 13 years ago #
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"Still depressed that there are so few examples of 'normal family life' in which bicycles are used."
That's what's commonly known as a "gap in the market". Get writing. Many people have made lots of money by writing the books they wanted to read or making the things they wanted to buy. I can see it now - SRD and Kaputnik - the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler of CCE.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Here's 9 childrens books about bikes .....
1. Duck on a Bike by David Shannon2.Marta and the Bicycle by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine
3.Mike and the Bike by Michael Ward, Lance Armstrong, Phil Liggett and Bob Thomson; illustrated by Bob Thomson
4 .Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen by Cari Best and Christine Davenie
5 .Franklin Rides a Bike by Paulette Bourgeois, illustrated by Brenda Clark
6. Froggy Rides a Bike by Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz
7. Gracie Goat's Big Bike Race by Erin Mirabella, illustrated by Lisa Horstman
8. Dora Rides to Bike Park by Kara McMahon, illustrated by Dave Aikins
9. Anatole by Eve Titus
Posted 13 years ago # -
Great web site for Mike and the Bike too. Games galore!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Er.....can you guess I've gone crazy and bought lots of these books for my kids?
Thanks SRD for starting this thread!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Lolz!!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Just thought I'd revive this thread.
Most entertaining.
Younger (CCE) readers won't have seen it!
Maybe it's time 'we' wrote a book!!!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Dr Seuss is quite into bikes, although they are often extremely bizarre and not always entirely practical.
His most practical idea comes from 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish':
We like our bike. It is made for three. Our Mike sits up in back, you see. We like our Mike and this is why: Mike does all the work when the hills get highApart from the fact that Mike is a mad-looking gorilla type thing that I wouldn't let my children have on the back of their triplet tandem (if they had one), the idea of having someone to push you up hills is very tempting.
Mike's not the scariest thing in that book. That accolade goes to Clark, (who we found in the park, in the dark). The children bring him home in a big bottle and it looks certain to me that he's going to eat them later...
Sorry, I digress. Nowhere could anything Dr Seuss does be described as 'normal'.
Posted 10 years ago # -
"Sorry, I digress. Nowhere could anything Dr Seuss does be described as 'normal'."
That's not a digression. We have already established that cycling isn't "normal".
(Yet.)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Mrs Armitage on Wheels http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mrs-Armitage-Wheels-Quentin-Blake/dp/0099400529
Also not particularly normal, but an inspiration to us Freds/Bettys everywhere
Posted 10 years ago # -
Oor Wullie and the Broons were generally portrayed as car-free families, living as they are in an rose-tinted, idealised working class, central belt-cum-Dundee of the post war industrialised period.
Hen Broon would buy a car once in a while but would generally be laughed at as all he could afford was a mini. In one strip it broke down repeatedly so he sold it to a farmer to keep chickens in. A Hen House. Geddit?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Nowhere could anything Dr Seuss does be described as 'normal'.
To this day I am terrified of the Gurtain behind the Curtain.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I think families don't appear in children's books riding bikes as much as you might expect because to have an adventure you have to get the parents out of the story as early as possible. Hence, Swallows and Amazons, Harry Potter, Famous Five, Jennings, Tom Sawyer, Tom Brown etc.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Oor Wullie had his bike mended by Alastair Gow.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4285917815_c122a26d92_o.gif
Posted 10 years ago # -
Saw this old thread mentioned on Twitter a few minutes ago...
Not a book, but Christoph (from the German kids TV programme "Maus") often cycles. In an episode that was repeated recently he hits a pothole and then explains how potholes come about, and how they get fixed.
Worth watching if you understand a little German:
http://www.wdrmaus.de/sachgeschichten/sachgeschichten/schlagloecher.php5Posted 9 years ago # -
.. and here Armin (again from the popular German "Maus" children's programme) shows how bicycle chains are made:
and bike pumps:
Edit: The forum software messed up the first version of this post - hope this works now...
Posted 9 years ago #
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