Mike and the Bike

We don't watch many sports, but the ones we do, we're pretty passionate about. One of them in particular is cycling. We love the pace, the energy, the way the crazy spectators are allowed to get up close and sometimes personal with the cyclists. And really folks, who can resist all that lycra?

Our kids like watching it too. I remember last year when my daughter was only two yelling, "Go Lance" while pumping her little fist in the air. While I was a little nervous about creating a mini cycling zealot, I had to giggle every time she made a bee-line for the trikes on visits to the local bike shop. Let's face it every kid, be it a boy or a girl, has a fondness for riding a bike.

Enter Mike and the Bike. This is a great little story about a kid and his love for his bike. With an intro by Lance Armstrong and accompanied by a CD reading by Tour de France commentator Phil Liggett, Mike and the Bike is a wonderful bedtime read. It has a great rhythm and is expertly illustrated.

Read it and you might be taken back to your first trip on wheels around the neighborhood--wind in your hair, streamers blowing by and that wonderful little sound the horn made every time you squeezed it. Squak, squak.