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Summer Learning: Walk & Roll

Walk and roll this summer with this booklist all about bikes. This is an multigenerational booklist that features selections for Pre-Readers (0-5), Readers (5-10), Pre-Teens (10-12), Teens (12-17), and Adults (18+). Selected by SJPL Staff.

San José Public Library

36 items

  • For Pre-Readers. A bike. Is it a big bike or a little bike? Fast or slow? Dirty or clean? It all depends on who is taking it for a ride...Join a charming cast of characters who discover just how far a different perspective--and one simple bike--can…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — J PICTURE BOOK Gillis
  • For Pre-Readers. Young Milo and his mother go for the same walk around their neighborhood every morning, but with Milo's imagination, there are always new things to see, old things to see in new ways, and the possibilities of what they will see…
    Book, 2023New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2023. — J PICTURE BOOK Howe
  • For Pre-Readers. Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.
    Book, 2022San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2022]. — J PICTURE BOOK Bolling
  • For Pre-Readers. Bear is an extraordinary, genius bear, who can do anything except ride a bike. Can Bear figure out how to get on two wheels?
    Book, 2015New York : Aladdin, 2015. — J PICTURE BOOK Liu
  • For Pre-Readers. Illustrations and brief text evoke a bicycle ride, with its ups and downs, sweeping turns, and vivid views.
    Book, J PICTURE BOOK Viva
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. In the darkness just before sunrise, a sleepy boy and his grandfather set off on Grandma's favorite walk to find her favorite place...As grandfather and grandchild stand gazing over the water to the horizon, and the sun…
    Book, 2025Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2025. — J PICTURE BOOK Cockcrof
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. An extraordinary book that celebrates skateboarding, family, and community. Every day, a little boy watches kids pass by on skateboards, and dreams of joining them. One day, his mother brings a surprise: her old…
    Book, 2024Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London : Greystone Kids, Greystone Books, [2024] — J PICTURE BOOK Flett
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. Children watch in amazement as the bicycle food deliverers of Tokyo stack their noodle bowls like architects, zip through the city like acrobats, and deliver delicious noodles to students, office workers, and families.
    Book, 2024New York : Random House Studio, [2024] — J PICTURE BOOK Maclear
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. I Love My Bike is a picture book about a little girl learning to ride a bike with the help of her father. Dad explains how to use the pedals and tells her to keep going until she's flying! Everything is going well until…
    Book, 2024Beverly, MA : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2024. — J PICTURE BOOK Mole
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. When young Charlie asks her grandfather, Papa Jo, what his hourglass is for, he demonstrates the answer by inviting her to spend the day at a leisurely pace. Charlie and Papa Jo cook delicious soup, pick wildflowers, row…
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pajama Press, 2024. — J PICTURE BOOK Turcotte
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile.
    Book, 2023Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2023. — J PICTURE BOOK Aguilera
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. Illustrations and easy-to-read text show the advantages of being on a bicycle when streets are jammed with other vehicles.
    Book, 2019New York : Holiday House, [2019] — J EASY READER Ferrari
  • For Pre-Readers and Readers. When you live at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is using…
    Book, 2018Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018. — J PICTURE BOOK Clarke
  • Pedal Pusher

    How One Woman's Bicycle Adventure Helped Change the World

    Boone, Mary, 1963-
    For Readers. In 1894, when two men bet that a woman could never bicycle around the world--as a man had done--Annie set out to prove them wrong, despite not knowing how to ride a bike. Dressed in a long skirt, she began her journey in Boston. It…
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. — J 796.6092 LONDONDE Boone
  • For Readers. When precocious eight-year-old Bisby's library hosts a bike-a-thon to raise money to buy books, she is determined to win the fundraiser.
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024] — J FICTION Scanlon
  • For Readers. Elena wants to ride her bike. She steadies, she readies. She wobbles, she bobbles . . . KA-BANG! Learning to ride a bike is hard. But Elena can do it. She just has to try, try again. With this reassuring story of childlike persistence,…
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — J EASY READER Medina
  • Born to Ride

    a Story About Bicycle Face

    Theule, Larissa,
    For Readers. In Rochester, New York, in 1896, Louisa Belinda Bellflower defies convention and ignores her brother's warnings by learning to ride a bicycle. Includes a history of bicycling and its connection to the women's rights movement.
    Book, 2019New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019. — J PICTURE BOOK Theule
  • Pedal Power

    How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World

    Drummond, Allan,
    For Readers. Describes how female activists like Maartje Rutten led protests against the vehicle-laden streets of Amsterdam, leading the way for a bicycling movement that is still active in the city today.
    Book, 2017New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. — J 388.3472 Drummond
  • For Readers. After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
    Book, 2017New York : Little Simon, 2017. — J DESMOND COLE GHOST PATROL
  • For Readers and Pre-Teens. Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — J FICTION Engelfri