Do You Like My Bike?

Do You Like My Bike? (Part of the new Hello, Hedgehog! series)
By Norm Feuti
Acorn, Scholastic, 2019. 46 p.

Last week I talked about one of the new Acorn books—well, this is another! I am so excited to see this new Scholastic division of books because early readers need lots of good books to practice reading with! This new series (that I got an advanced reading copy of—so thus the sneak peek) comes out at the end of this month. But we are so excited about it that we already have it on order so you can put it on hold!

In this series we are introduced to Hedgehog and Harry. Hedgehog has a new bike and he wants to ride it and then he wants to share the experience with his good friend Harry (although Harry isn’t that keen on riding a bike that looks a little too fast). Other than a bit of onomatopoeia, this sweet new series has a lot of dialog in color-coordinated speech bubbles that will easily help kids understand who is talking and what is going on. There are also some comic-like panels that help kids understand the flow of the story and which moments are most important (those that take up larger panels or whole pages). Kids who have graduated from the easiest of easy readers but aren’t ready for the early chapter books will enjoy this new series.

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