Children’s Books

[Jkarlin]

Friends gave us this book for our toddler. Everyone loves it, and I especially like the bike (kinda like a Clem, even with the fork a little wonky?) and the rabbit’s riding style—it seems pretty Riv-ish to me. Do y’all have any other recommendations for great children’s books with great bikes? 

[Pancake]

Cycle City  - lots of baskets and functional bikes.

[R Olson]

My wife is a librarian and provided me with this link to 16 recommended children's bike books from the School Library Journal:

https://www.slj.com/story/from-trike-to-bike-16-picture-books-about-learning-to-ride-bicycle-milestones

She also found this other one on Amazon that she thought looked good:

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And one more…..

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On Aug 3, 2025, at 12:54 PM, R Olson <ryan.tre...@gmail.com> wrote:

My wife is a librarian and provided me with this link to 16 recommended children's bike books from the School Library Journal:

https://www.slj.com/story/from-trike-to-bike-16-picture-books-about-learning-to-ride-bicycle-milestones

She also found this other one on Amazon that she thought looked good:

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On Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 6:35:34 PM UTC-6 Pancake wrote:

Cycle City  - lots of baskets and functional bikes.

On Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 11:40:48 AM UTC-7 Jkarlin wrote:

Friends gave us this book for our toddler. Everyone loves it, and I especially like the bike (kinda like a Clem, even with the fork a little wonky?) and the rabbit’s riding style—it seems pretty Riv-ish to me. Do y’all have any other recommendations for great children’s books with great bikes? 

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[Patrick Moore]

This series of novels is not meant for small children, but older children certainly can read them and enjoy them, and while bicycles are not the theme, at least one bicycle is prominent in many of the stories.

These are Alan Bradley’s crime mysteries series featuring 11-year-old enfant precoce Flavia de Luce, youngest of an ancient, decayed, and near bankrupt rural aristocratic family, who has a genius for using chemistry to solve crimes, to the discomfiture of the regional police. She appropriates her long-ago-disappeared mother’s BSA Keep Fit that she names Gladys to ride about her family's little ancestral village of Bishop’s Lacey investing things.

The 3-4-5 earliest ones are the best ones.

Bradley does due diligence in his historical research and writes in a detached and whimsical/ironic but engaging way.

No book to link this photo to, but the photo shows 2 boys in Belfast long ago, one a very famous writer. A pat on the back if you can identify them.

[Jeffrey Zelevansky]

Hit The Bike Trail  by Alice Sankey was a formative book for me. This reminds me to track down a copy to own once again. Best I can remember, it's about a group of friends who are going on a bike trip. Before they can get on the road, a bike is stolen and replaced with a sub-optimal bike! 

[David Carner]

I believe that is C.S.Lewis and his big brother "Warnie".

[M D Smith]

Don’t forget Curious George!

H.A. and Margaret Rey escaped the Nazi occupation of Paris on bicycles, carrying the original Curious George manuscript with them.

Cheers- Mike in Somerville, Mass

[Jacob Kersey]

Thanks for all the Great recommendations so far on this thread! 

Our 2 year old has been obsessed with this one lately (as was our 4 year old before her) about the excitement of learning to ride when your dad has A LOT of bikes.

https://www.lemuriabooks.com/Two-Wheels-p/9781536231397.htm (Apologies for the obscure online bookstore link, getting harder and harder to escape Amazon.)

Hurray books!

-Jake in Oakland 

[Craig Montgomery]

https://www.amazon.com/Super-Grandpa-David-Schwartz/dp/1889910333

It's a great Read Aloud until she can tackle it herself. Illustrations are wonderful. 

Craig in Tucson

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/dec/11/gustaf-hakansson-sweden-cycle-race

On Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 11:40:48 AM UTC-7 Jkarlin wrote:

[Pam Bikes]

I checked out the "Wherever you Go" book and was delighted.  I have requested the library order "Cylce City".  Now to request the others.  Thanks for posting these.

[Keith P.]

On Jeff's recommendation I picked up a copy of "Hit The Bike Trail."

It did not disappoint.

Basically the story of a kid learning the joys of a step-through Platypus.

I scanned a few illustrations:

Are those Boscos I see?...

Here's one of "Grant" teaching some young folks about toe clips.

Looks like some WoolyWarm wear to me.

k.

[Jeffrey Zelevansky]

I love seeing this here, especially with Keith's interpretive captions. This book meant so much to me as a kid (in 1980?) and introduced me to the idea of bicycle touring as a thing I could do. When I got old enough (14), I rode my Univega Suprasport on many unsupported camping tours sponsored by our local YMCA. It's amazing to think that my parents let me do that before cell phones or digital anything. I still have the photo album with pictures from my Instamatic.

Despite owning a Rivendell, I don't tend to be a nostalgic person...but I do miss those simpler times and wish now were more like then. Halcyon days indeed.