Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle by Chris Raschka

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Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle by Chris Raschka

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Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle by Chris Raschka

Raschka's] marvelous sequences, fluid style, and emotional intelligence capture all of the momentum and exhilaration of this glorious accomplishment, raves School Library Journal in a starred review.

Learning to ride a bike is one of the most important milestones of childhood, and no one captures the emotional ups and downs of the experience better than Chris Raschka, who won the 2012 Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy. In this simple yet emotionally rich guide, a father takes his daughter through all the steps in the process--from choosing the perfect bicycle to that triumphant first successful ride. Using very few words and lots of expressive pictures, here is a picture book that not only shows kids how to learn to ride, but captures what it feels like to fall . . . get up . . . fall again . . . and finally by luck, grace, and determination ride a bicycle
Chris Raschka was born in Huntington, Pennsylvania on March 6th, 1959. He grew up speaking both English and German with his parents, his brother Paul and his sister Renate. Writer, artist and musician, Chris Raschka combines his three great passions to create original and daring picture books for young children. Chris Raschka's picture books include Yo! Yes?, a Caldecott Honor Book in 1994, Charlie Parker Played Be Bop; Mysterious Thelonious, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Can't Sleep; The Blushful Hippopotamus; Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg; Arlene Sardine; and a version of the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts. He has also illustrated the latest 'found' Margaret Wise Brown title Another Important Book, and Happy to Be Nappy a first children's book for bell hooks. His latest book for DK Ink is Like Likes Like which The New York Times describes as having Exuberant illustrations [which] enlarge a simple but eloquent text. Chris lives in New York City with his wife and their young son.
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ISBN 13 9780375870071
ISBN 10 0375870075
Title Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
Author Chris Raschka
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2013-04-09
Number of pages 32
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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