Louise Belinda Bellflower lives in Rochester, New York, in 1896. She spends her days playing with her brother, Joe. But Joe gets to ride a bicycle, and Louise Belinda doesn't. In fact, Joe issues a solemn warning: If girls ride bikes, their faces will get so scrunched up, eyes bulging from the effort of balancing, that they'll get stuck that way FOREVER! Louise Belinda is appalled by this nonsense, so she strikes out to discover the truth about this so-called "bicycle face." Set against the backdrop of the women's suffrage movement Born to Ride is the story of one girl's courageous quest to prove that she can do everything the boys can do, while capturing the universal freedom and accomplishment children experience when riding a bike.
About Larissa Theule
Larissa Theule lives in Pasadena, California where she rides a bicycle and cultivates her own bicycle face. Her website is http://larissatheule.com
About Kelsey Garrity-Riley
Kellsey Garrity-Riley grew up in Germany and Belgium and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her website is http://kgriley.com
Activities & Links
- You can see how to draw the main character and bicycle from the story at https://kidlit.tv/2019/06/ready-set-draw-the-girl-bike-from-born-to-ride/
- There are bicycle safety worksheets from the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration, including word searches and dot-to-dots at https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/bike/bskitboth/3152bskit/pages/section1/section1toc.html
- Kids can learn more about the Women’s Suffrage movement at https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/womens-suffrage-movement/ and https://www.historyforkids.net/womens-suffrage.html
- The Victorian Cyclist blog at https://thevictoriancyclist.wordpress.com has lots of pictures of cyclists, male and female from the 1890s.
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