Pedaling Peddlers! Bikes for Sale by Carter Higgins

THEY WERE NEW ONCE!

At the Bike Shop Maurice has invested in a bright yellow bike cart and pedals off to sell his wares, collecting the best lemons from the grove along the way. He stops at the grocery for a sack of sugar and is soon pedaling and peddling his tall glasses of refreshing lemonade in the perfect spot, not too close to the Snack Bar, where the customers are.

Lotta picks a bright red bike and sets out to collect sticks along the muddy trails in the woods. It seems that her friends can find many uses for some hand-picked (shall we say, artisan sticks)--throwing-sticks for pups, stilts, pretend dueling swords, and limbo poles to slither under.

But Maurice and Lotta feel the urge to move on... and SMASH! and CRASH! Accidents will happen, and both bikes are wrecked!

Maurice and Lotta have to log their miles on foot, with sneakers for Maurice, and galoshes for Lotta.

BUT SNEAKERS WEREN'T AS FAST AS RUBBER TIRES, AND GALOSHES WEREN'T GOOD FOR CLIMBING.

It's an unsatisfactory substitution for both. They miss their wheels!

But then, enter Sid.

SID KNEW ALL ABOUT BIKES.

Where there's a will, there's a way, and with Sid on the job, the rescued parts of Maurice's and Lotta's bikes are some transformed into a nifty tandem bike--a bicycle re-built, re-purposed, and NEW for TWO! And...

... It's on the road again for the two new partners, in Carter Higgins bright new Bikes for Sale (Chronicle Books, 2019), and Maurice and Lotta are back in business at their new location with new products and new friends. Author Higgins constructs a crafty tale of two entrepreneurs who recycle their rides, with his own partner, artist Zachariah OHora creating jolly illustrations which help to tell the story. What's was old is now new, in a jolly picture book that finds friendship and makes something happy from a mishap!