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Bicycles, Bloomers, and Books about Invention

June 26, 2025 by Vicki Palmquist
Birth of the Bicycle by Sarah Nelson and Iacopo Bruno, Candlewick Press
Since 1900, most of kids' riding and rolling has happened on bicycles. It’s no wonder that children love these clever machines. As kids learn to ride, their worlds widen; their independence grows.
Categories Knock Knock Tags A History of Toilet Paper (and other Potty Tools), airplans, Balloons Over Broadway, Barry Wittenstein, bicycles, bicycling, Birth of the Bicycle, bloomers, Boo-Boos That Changed the World, books, Candlewick Press, Chris Hsu, Crayola crayons, Dream Builder, Edwin Binney, Fran Hodgkins, Garrett Morgan, Gilbert Ford, Greg Endries, How It Works, How People Learned to Fly, Iacopo Bruno, inventions, Karyn Parsons, Kelly Starling Lyons, Laura Freeman, Macy's Parade balloons, Melissa Sweet, Natascha Biebow, Philip Freelon, Picture Books, R. Gregory Christie, Sarah Nelson, Saving the Day, Slinky, Sophia Gholz, Steven Salerno, The Crayon Man, The Marvelous Thing That Came From a Spring, traffic signals, True Kelley, Valorie Fisher, Xiana Teimoy 1 Comment

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