My Sister's Rusty Bike: A Novel

Heading out on a cross-country journey, a young traveler encounters a host of diverse characters along the way, such as Buddy Biggs whose cow has more than twenty-two blue spots and Maybelle Bean whose dog can recite his ABCs.

Jim Aylesworth is the author of many books for young readers, including Two Terrible Frights and The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock, both illustrated by Eileen Christelow, and Mother Halverson's New Cat, illustrated by Toni Goffe. His most recent book for Atheneum, Wake Up, Little Children, was illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop. Mr. Aylesworth has been a first-grade teacher for nearly twenty-five years and marks that as his proudest accomplishment. He lives with his family in Hinsdale, Illinois.