The Bike Lesson

Rating

Papa Bear fails at riding a bicycle.

Another stupid old Berenstain Bears book where Papa tries to teach Small Bear how to ride a bike and keeps not listening to his own advice and getting maimed and mangled in various ways, and Small Bear just thanks him for showing him what not to do. Small Bear gets really impatient waiting for his dad to finish teaching him how to ride the bike so he can actually ride the bike.

There's no actual lesson. It's not actually teaching things that you would be worried about if you were really riding a bike. He's not really teaching how to do things like stop and start.

The best part: when they're running from the farmer who owns the cow and the chickens, the farmer is a wolf.

Message

Be careful when you ride bikes.

Publication Year
1964
Age Range
3-7
Number of Pages
72
Number of words on a typical page
17