Stan Berenstain - The Bike Lesson

Copyright 1964 by Stanley and Janice Berenstain.
Copyright renewed 1992 by Stanley and Janice Berenstain.
Cover art copyright 2003 by Berenstain Enterprises, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in New York by Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. This title was originally cataloged by the Library of Congress as follows:
Berenstain, Stanley. The bike lesson, by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
[New York] Beginner Books [1964] 61 p. col. 24 cm. 24 cm.

B-36.
I. Berenstain, Janice, joint author. II. Title. PZ8.3.B4495Bi 64-11460
eISBN: 978-0-375-98327-6 v3.1

C ome here, Small Bear. Look, Ma, look! A brand-new bike. Look, Ma, look! A brand-new bike.

Thanks, Dad! Thanks! For me, you say? I am going to ride it right away! Not yet, not yet, not yet, my son First come the lessons, then the fun. How to get on is lesson one. Lesson one? Is that lesson one? Yes. That is what you should not do. So let that be a lesson to you. Now I see. Now I see.

That was a very good lesson for me. Dad! Where are you going? You showed me how. Why dont you let me ride it now? Not yet. Not yet. Before you do Ill have to give you lesson two. Just watch, Small Bear.

Just watch your Pop. Lesson two is how to stop. A very good lesson. Thank you, Pop. May I ride it now that you showed me how? May I? May I ride it now? Not yet. Not yet.

You have more to learn. Ill have to show you how to turn. Just watch me This is lesson number three. Wow! What a lesson! That number three! That may be a little too hard for me. This is what you must never do. It surely was, Dad! Now I see. That was a very good lesson for me. When I get you down may I ride it then? May I? May I? Just say when. Wait, my son. Wait, my son.

You must learn some more. I have yet to teach you lesson four. When you come to a puddle what will you do? Will you go around or ride right through? Its not so good to ride right through.