Mike and the Bike

My son wanted this book for his soon to be here baby. I gave it to him and he sat down to read it and snapped a few pictures of the pages and sent them to his friends who are big bicyclists. He loved it.

I bought this for my 6-year-old son who LOVES riding his bike and watched part of the Tour on TV with us this year, but he hasn't been interested in reading it again after the first time.I think the story is a bit too simple to hold his interest, and I wish it had been developed into a longer story that had more "meat" to it. It seems to me that "Mike and the Bike" is a story more geared for kids in the 3-5 age range. The CD reinforced my "younger kid" impression because the songs are sung by a child rather than an adult.

This story is great for any kid you want to turn in to a cycling enthusiast. It advocates wearing helmets and, to my husband's great delight, cleaning the bike at the end of the ride.My son loves the story and the illustrations are interesting and fun. I find the music on the CD a little funky but my 3 y.o. likes it.

Both my 5.5 year old and my 2.5 year old love this little book (the 5.5 year old has it pretty much memorized). The CD is a nice addition (The author is formerly of The Wallflowers, so knows music) and his daughter is the child's voice in many of the songs.Warning about the Phil Liggett narration - it is EXTREMELY slowly read. None of the usual enthusiasm and spirit that us cycling fans normally associate with Phil, he comes across as much more monotone and dry.

Nice book; however, when it arrived, it was missing the companion CD.

Delightful, lyrical, charming and fun. I bought this book for myself because it has two of my favorite things: bicycles and poetry! I bought a second copy for my grandson, who is ten. We ride bikes together. When he got it, he was about two pages in when he looked up and said, "It rhymes! That's cool!" (lest you think that young people today don't like poetry). Good stuff, nicely done.

There were stickers throughout the book replacing the name of Mike with the name Rick.I purchased the book for a friend with the name of Mike - this is so disappointing and renders the book useless to me. I feel deceived as to the condition of the book which was advertised as Used-Very Good.

This was my daughter's first book and we read it over and over at bedtime for months. We bought the sequel "Mike and the bike meet Lucille the wheel" and that is her new favorite. Great stories!!

Great illustrations, very unusual funky music (and lots of it) on the cd, a great present for kids who like cycling. Lance armstrong didnt write the book, only the introduction, so you can skip it if you want to avoid his input and still enjoy a fantastic book!