The Bike Lesson

I must admit that when I was a kid I loved the Berenstain bears and from what I can gather from the internet, so did a lot of other people. There has been mentioned that these older books are much better than the newer books, but I personally do not know the difference, maybe because I was not really exposed to the two different books, or maybe I had only ever dined on the classics. This particular book I would have to suggest is a classic.
Papa Bear buys Little Bear a bike and then decides to teach Little Bear how to ride. However it seems (as is generally the case with Papa Bear) that he needs to take more notice of the lessons himself rather than teaching Little Bear these lessons. Though one could also suspect that these are object show more lessons in what not to do. Poor old Papa Bear just seems to keep on getting into trouble, and Little Bear fortunately is always around (sometimes with a magical length of rope that happened to appear from nowhere) to help his papa out.
In another sense this could be the idea of how we learn from our elders and how not to make the mistakes that they have made. Unfortunately, while that would be a wonderful lesson for us to learn as kids, sometimes we are just unable to actually do that. Sometimes we simply see the actions of our elders as being the right actions because our elders are, well, our elders, and we look up to them and are influenced by them. In other cases, we are so appalled by the actions of our elders that we immediately go off and live our lives the complete opposite of the lives of our elders, which brings with it its own difficulties, and that can be that we are unable to distinguish whether the opposite actions are right or not, or whether those opposite actions create their own problems.
However, this is just a fun book for children where we are given some lessons (though not necessarily serious lessons) that we should consider when riding a bike. While riding down hill at a tremendous speed is fun (and I must say it is really fun because as a kid I used to do that all the time, and in fact remember one particular road, Target Hill Road, near where I grew up, that we would regularly ride down) but can also be really dangerous (though I don't think I ever fell off, except for one time at a BMX track). show less

The book titled "The Bike Lesson" deals with a father bear teaching his eager and energetic son how to ride a bike. The father and son deal with multiple different situations with the hope of becoming a safe bike rider. This is a very enjoyable book that is humorous, exciting, and also deals with real situations that a young child might deal with when learning to ride a bike. I would recommend this book for kids that are in grades K-2.

The Bike Lesson is another early Berenstain Bears book, this one from 1964. Like The Big Honey Hunt, we see Papa Bear insisting he knows best, and coming out the worse for it.

The story is simple: Papa Bear has gotten a bicycle for Small Bear, but before he'll let Small Bear ride it, he wants to give him some lessons. Of course, it looks like Papa Bear is in need of lessons himself! He tries to cover up his failures ("This is what/you should not do./Now let his be/a lesson to you."), but one wonders if Small Bear is really falling for it.

(The rest of this review is posted on my blog.)

This story follows one of the many adventures that the Berenstain Bears family has together. I like this book because it has great illustrations and has a good storyline and would use it in my classroom to introduce the appropriate way on how to teach someone to do something new. This book might be suitable for grades 2 and 3 and the main theme is perseverance.

This book is about a papa bear getting his son a bike. The boy wanted to ride the back badly, but papa bear wanted to show him how to ride it and the lessons he should learn about riding the bike before he gets on it. I liked this book because it was funny to see all of the different things that the dad got into to teach him the lessons. The grade level for this would be 2-3rd grade.

This is a book about daddy teaching his son how to ride a bike. Daddy was not a good teacher of teaching how to ride the bike, but all the incidents that happened become the lesson for the kid.
I like this book because it has some sense of humor, and it is fun to look at the characters' expressions in the pictures.
This book would be a good read for 1st to 4th grade.

The Bike Lesson is a silly story by Stan Berenstain that shows a father teaching his child to ride a bike. This picture book describes the saying "do as I say, not as I do" well.
This book would work well for children ages K-2