The Book Depository Duck on a Bike by Walter M Mayes
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Description: Duck on a Bike : Mixed media product : Scholastic US : 9780545225960 : 0545225965 : 01 Jan 2011 : Caldecott Honor winner Shannon applies his wonderful offbeat humor to the story of a duck who decides to try riding a bike--and loves it. The Book Depository Duck on a Bike by Walter M Mayes - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780545225960
MPN: 0545225965
GTIN: 9780545225960
Author: Anne
Rating: 5
Review: Lovely book.Great for working on predicting skills in year 1!
Author: ScotFlower
Rating: 2
Review: My two year old son thinks the book is fabulous, but the adults understand the words where my son is mostly going off the pictures. The book is basically this: Duck learns how to ride a bike and goes on a ride around the farm. Each farm animal makes a comment as duck rides by on the bike. The animal's comments range from cautions (watch where you are going) to some that sound mocking (show-off, not as fast as me) to more positive (wishing they could ride too), to silly (wanting to eat a bike). Spoiler: then all the animals go bike riding together. The trouble is, all the comments when read together with the images, somehow leaves a more negative impact than a fun or positive impact... and none of us (besides the two year old) enjoys reading the book. Also, three things bother me in the book. First, the animals "steal" bikes... the animals return them at the end of the book, but clearly the animals did not have permission to take or use them. I know that animals cannot ask permission, but this book is being read to small children. Children's books need to teach right from wrong, what is and is not appropriate behavior, etc. Second, the goat eats a bike's basket, but then the book claims no one would noticed the animals used the bikes - what child would not notice the missing or damaged basket?! Lastly, I don't want my son to stand on the seat and ride a bike with one foot in the air... yet this is one of the "fun" things duck does on the bike. Now if you have a lot of open space and are riding on soft dirt or grass and have older kids with great balance, maybe trying out that trick is a fun thing to do, but WE do not have a yard, live on pavement, next to busy highway, with a very young child... basically trying out that trick where we live will probably end in your death. This book is for very young kids, not older kids, so it should show things appropriate to that age group. Overall, this book is cute, but did not come off as positive as it should have and just did not meet the content quality we expect in books with 5-star reviews. I really like the idea of the story but it needed some improvements.
