The bike lesson berenstain bears6/22/2023 In a dropped-out white box, it said, “ANOTHER ADVENTURE OF THE BERENSTAIN BEARS.” We were puzzled. There was Papa riding downhill with Small Bear hanging on for dear life against a background of 90 percent magenta, with the book’s title in big yellow letters. The cover looked like it was supposed to. Ted produced the finished book at our second celebratory lunch. After each demonstration of bike-riding technique (Papa teaches by bad example), Papa says, “That is what you should not do. In The Bike Lesson, our second bear book, Papa brings home a two-wheel bike and proceeds to teach Small Bear how to ride it. Once it was decided that a bear series was a good idea, the editorial process went reasonably smoothly. Adapted and excerpted from Stan and Jan Berenstain’s Down a Sunny Dirt Road: an Autobiography, published by Random House in 2002.
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