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Drummond, Allan

Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World

40 pp. | Farrar | March, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-30527-7 $17.99

(2) K-3 Drummond (Energy Island; Green City) takes young readers to Amsterdam, a city that turned automobile- and carbon monoxide–clogged streets into bicycle- and family-friendly boulevards. His straightforward text and near-impressionistic illustrations show citizens, led by activist Maartje Rutten, who took to the streets (on bicycles) in the 1970s to protest constructing more roads for automobiles. As a united community, they effected worldwide change. Bib.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017