A little girl wants to visit her father AND she wants to learn to ride her bicycle, and it seems to her that that is 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?
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'Full of breezy exhilaration.' (Sunday Times )
'A perfect book about learning independence.' (Publishing News ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'A perfect book about learning independence.' (Publishing News ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A racy, rhythmical picture book about learning to ride a bike, from the best-selling duo!
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Teach me to ride and I'll ride to you, From Mom's house over to yours. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The story is about a daughter who wants to learn how to ride to get to her father's.
The colours and the pictures are giving away very graphically the atmosphere of speed and motion, like the motion that the girl experiences on the bike. But at the same time the motion could relate to the motion of life, getting older, getting more independent.
Not surprisingly the adult reader may find difficult answering the question "why the dad is tearful?" and acknowledging the complex emotions of humans' relationships: Can you let go when you love someone?
The beginning of the story could imply that the parents are separated but "to my father's" could mean many places, perhaps it could mean the world of the adults or it could even imply more painful realities. The pictures finally can give some alternative and a suggestion could be to take your time and allow the kids to explore the last page (after the end of the text) where both bicycles ride up to the sky.
The colours and the pictures are giving away very graphically the atmosphere of speed and motion, like the motion that the girl experiences on the bike. But at the same time the motion could relate to the motion of life, getting older, getting more independent.
Not surprisingly the adult reader may find difficult answering the question "why the dad is tearful?" and acknowledging the complex emotions of humans' relationships: Can you let go when you love someone?
The beginning of the story could imply that the parents are separated but "to my father's" could mean many places, perhaps it could mean the world of the adults or it could even imply more painful realities. The pictures finally can give some alternative and a suggestion could be to take your time and allow the kids to explore the last page (after the end of the text) where both bicycles ride up to the sky.
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This is the story of a girl wanting her dad to teach her to ride her bike. The girl's parents are divorced and the father has something of a look into the future of his relationship with his daughter.
That's a very simply analysis and goes no way to explain why it had me in tears when reading it to my son. I'm still married, but I had been teaching my son to ride his bike that very day and I, too, could see how my relationships with my children may change in the future.
It's a simple yet very powerful story, one which having borrowed it from the library, I decided to buy so I could read it again and perhaps, one day, my children could read it and understand.
Buy it, read it, but keep some tissues handy because it can make a grown man cry.
That's a very simply analysis and goes no way to explain why it had me in tears when reading it to my son. I'm still married, but I had been teaching my son to ride his bike that very day and I, too, could see how my relationships with my children may change in the future.
It's a simple yet very powerful story, one which having borrowed it from the library, I decided to buy so I could read it again and perhaps, one day, my children could read it and understand.
Buy it, read it, but keep some tissues handy because it can make a grown man cry.
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Teacher Mom
20 Nov 2003
By A Customer
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Format:Hardcover
... This book is not simply about a girl learning to ride a bike, it is more about the way a parent feels when they may no longer be needed. I heard it read aloud by a storyreader and I, as a parent of mostly grown children, cried at the touching sentiment in this story. If you are in the same "life place" that I am, you'll understand. I will purchase this book for soon to be "empty nest" friends.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A sweet book that will tug at mom and dad's heartstrings
8 Mar 2013
By Jennifer Barrick
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I checked this book out at the library after my 3 1/2 year old picked it out, and I figured it'd just be about a dad teaching his little girl how to ride a bike. I was busy folding clothes so I had my husband read this book to her at bedtime, while I listened from the hallway. Wow, it went so far beyond giving bike riding lessons! Yes, the father literally taught his daughter how to ride a bike with initial fear on the little girl's part of him letting go, but as he watched her take her first strides on her own, he realized that she is growing up way too quickly and it he who becomes scared of letting go of the little girl he knows and loves. My husband, who is not always overly sentimental, was bawling by the end of this book and gave our own little girl a big squeeze and told her how much he loved her. It created an incredibly sweet moment in what would have otherwise been a rather mundane evening. I read the book to her a few days later and I also teared up a bit. Hold onto to your babies because eventually they have to go out on their own! :)
3 of 9 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Strange
8 Aug 2003
By A Customer
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I found this book to be disturbing.
After the little girl DOES learn to ride a bike,
the father says "...it's difficult letting you go,
I was scared too today -- scared you would never come
back to me now that you can ride away."
Huh? And then....
the daughter says, "Daddy, I'm here. I won't let go.
Not until you say. Hold on tight. I love you so
we'll do this together, okay?"
Who is the parent here?
This poor girl might need counseling when she grows up.
Seriously, this view is way too mixed up. I took the
book back. That's all I needed, my daughter learning to
ride a bike, thinking her dad is scared she'll "never
come back?!" Pass on this one.
After the little girl DOES learn to ride a bike,
the father says "...it's difficult letting you go,
I was scared too today -- scared you would never come
back to me now that you can ride away."
Huh? And then....
the daughter says, "Daddy, I'm here. I won't let go.
Not until you say. Hold on tight. I love you so
we'll do this together, okay?"
Who is the parent here?
This poor girl might need counseling when she grows up.
Seriously, this view is way too mixed up. I took the
book back. That's all I needed, my daughter learning to
ride a bike, thinking her dad is scared she'll "never
come back?!" Pass on this one.
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