Jude IsabellaRecensioni

The illustrations are excellent. [b:The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle|23688743|The Red Bicycle The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle|Jude Isabella|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1421704363s/23688743.jpg|43297595] will help kids realize the impact their own donations and actions can have on the lives of others, even people far away, and might inspire kids to use their own bicycles more often or to donate their old bikes.

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book through NetGalley.

Go wolves!

Interesting subject matter and pretty pictures help offset occasionally dry and dull text.

Wolves are awesome! Beavers are awesome! Ravens are manipulative jerks.

Isabella's Bringing Back the Wolves is a middle-grade nonfiction book about the importance of conservation. It is the tale of an unintended effects of the early American government offering bounties on predator species. This resulted in wolves disappearing from what is now Yellowstone National Park. It covers the chain reaction caused by the absence of this important keystone species, and the project that reintroduced wolves back into the park. My cubs and I read this together and enjoyed it. It is very informative, without being too complicated for younger readers. The artwork is quite lovely as well. Highly recommended for any child interested in nature and animals!

***Many thanks to the Netgalley & Kids Can Press for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Leo wants a bike, not just any bike but the red one with 18 gears. He works shoveling snow, cutting lawns and raking leaves until he has enough money to buy it. He rides it everywhere for many years until he is finally too big for it. Because he has taken such good care of the bike, it looks almost new. He wants the bike to go to someone who really needs it and will appreciate it the way he does. When he tells the bike shop owner, he tells Leo about an organization that will take bike donations and send them to countries where they are needed. At the donation area, Leo takes Big Red apart for shipping and soon his bike, along with 461 others, is sailing across the ocean on its way to someone in Africa who really needs it. When Big Red arrives in Africa, it is matched with Alisetta. She learns to ride Big Red so she can get to the fields earlier, harvest more sorghum for her family. She can also ride to market to sell the goods her grandma makes to earn money to she and her little sister can go to school. Alisetta finally earns enough money to buy another bike, but while she is gone to get it, pigs fun over Big Red and bend the spokes and ruin the bike. A worker from a medical clinic takes the bike, repairs it and turns it into an ambulance by attaching a trailer and stretcher on it. Now when people in villages can't otherwise get to the clinic, Haridata can ride to them and even transport them back to the clinic using her bicycle ambulance. Soon people in all the surrounding villages know about the wonderful bicycle ambulance that the kids now call Le Grand Rouge. What a wonderful journey big Read takes and what a useful life it leads. The illustrations are done in a folk art style which adds to the story.

This is an awesome book that informs children about the world and inspires them to be better global citizens. The section at the end of the book letting kids know what they can do help with their outgrown or no longer needed bicycles was great and hopefully will encourage them to help others.

Thanks to Netgalley and Kids Can Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.

An adorable and approachable book about the history and future of language. It covers early spoken sounds, alphabets and written languages, multiple languages, made-up languages, neologisms, sign language, and does it all in an entertaining and easily understandable way.

This book tells the story of a red bicycle as it journeys across the ocean and plays different roles in serving the wants and needs of the owners.

Beautiful picture book that tells the story of one red bicycle and the impact it has on multiple lives.

Children's librarians this would be a great book to share with children and families at a picture book discussion program. Would also be good to use during "story time" for teens or adult with special needs.


ARC received from NetGally.com

Several themes to jump off of here: sharing, recycling, reusing, fitness, economics, and environmental impact. Back matter includes a description of organizations who collect bicycles for donation and a note of curricular support for parents and teachers.

This is a really great story and one with an important message. The illustrations are exceptional, but the book itself is let down a little by some of its word usage that a young child wouldn't know (or even an adult, if I am honest). For example, I have no clue what "sorghum" is, what it is actually used for, or why a family in Africa would grow it. What "dolo" tastes like (or even what it actually is) isn't explained either—only that it is a drink and it creates extra yeast (how? why?) and "draff" (which is pretty well described and explained). It would be easy to look up the words and get an understanding of them before reading it to a class, but if it's a spur of the moment book, it might be hard to explain to the child.
The illustrations and message are just wonderful. Based on the illustrations, the overall story, and the resources in the back, this is a five-star read. Shin's illustrations makes the bright red bicycle really stand out which seems only right since it is the bike's story. At the end of the book, there is information about what kids can do to help bring used bikes to areas in the world that need them and the organizations to contact should they have a bike to donate. The book does make it clear that once they donate their bikes, kids will not know where it goes or who will use it or how they will use it.

When Leo outgrows his bicycle, it finds a new home with Alisetta, who uses it to access to her family's sorghum field and the market. After Alisetta, Haridata uses the bike for ambulance services. The book has a lot of text but also sums up the page in one line on that page which could make it more accessible for younger readers.

A bicycle, originally owned and ridden by a young boy, is donated to a to an organization that ships bicycles to Africa and is sent to Burkina Faso in West Africa where it is used it to carry goods to the market, and later for delivering medications and bringing sick people to the hospital. A great story in the Citizen Kid series.

CitizenKid's "The Red Bicycle" is a book told in third-person narration about Leo. He purchases, loves and names a very special red bike. When he grows out of the bike he sends it to Africa where readers are introduced to Alisetta. She uses the bike to help her family. It is also an interesting combination of a picture book and non fiction text. Parts of the book would make a good read aloud for younger audience, however the volume of the non fiction text may overwhelm even an intermediate reader. Overall it is a great lesson on how to start a movement and provide support to a developing nation.

From the publishers of "One Hen" and "If the World Were a Village" comes the cross-national story of a U.S. child's bike that makes it way across the world to others who need it in an ongoing circle of giving for good. Block print-style illustrations transcend any one culture, adding to the feeling of connectivity. Review copy received via NetGalley.com. Recommended. (151)½

This conversational history offers many tidbits of the origin of words, how languages came to be, language families, slang, unspoken language --sign language, and so much more. I can see reading a page here and there to deepen or being a lesson on grammar ("Grammar Day is March 4th" (p.8) Who knew?), a lesson on vocabulary ("By the time you're finished high school, you'll have a vocabulary of about 20,000 words" (p. 6) I think this might inspire kids to enrich their vocabularies. And you gotta love this: Shakespeare "liked to turn nouns into verbs. He 'friended' long before Facebook. And we can thank him for 'zany,' too."

Lots of interesting information, really weird pictures.