May is National Bike Month

These books are about bicycles and their riders. Web sites on this topic are the League of American Bicyclists and the US Center for Disease Control's bike safety site.

The cover of Bicycle RiderBicycle Rider by Mary Scioscia, Harper & Row, Publishers Inc., New York, NY 1983
The story of champion bicyclist Marshall Taylor, who was the first African-American to participate in integrated national bicycle racing and become a champion.

A Great Bicycle Book by Jane Sarnoff and Reynold Ruffins, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY 1973
A book to help you take care of, repair, enjoy and learn about your bicycle.

The Bicycle & How It Works by David Inglis Urquhart, illustrated by Enrico Arno, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., New York, NY 1972
An explanation of what all the pieces of your bicycle do and the history of how they developed.

Franklin Rides a Bike by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark, Scholastic Inc., New York, NY 1997
Franklin, the turtle, wobbbles and falls off but learns to ride his bike.

Bicycle Book by Gail Gibbons, Holiday House, New York, NY,1995
Another book about the history and use of the bicycle in very easy to read form.

The cover of My Bike My Bike by Donna Jakob, illustrated by Nelle Davis, Hyperion Books for Children, New York, NY 1994
Yesterday the hero of this easy to read book fell off a lot but today was different...

Bear on a Bike by Stella Blackstone, illustrated by Debbie Harter, Barefoot Books, Inc., New York, NY 1998
The fun to read, and beautifully illustrated, story of a bear that starts out on a bike but goes to many locations around the world by various methods of transportation.

The cover of Summer WheelsSummer Wheels by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Thomas B. Allen, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York, NY 1992
The Bicycle Man fixes up old bikes and lends them to the neighborhood kids for free as long as they follow two rules, but one boy doesn't follow the rules.

The Bicycle Man by Allen Say, Parnassus Press, Houghton Mifflin Co. Oakland, CA 1982
Two American soldiers show up on Sportsday at a small school in post World War II Japan and show off their bicycle riding skills, as told by the author who was there that day when he was a child.


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