Ride Like the Wind

Berenstain Bears Stepping Stone Books

by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

Love at first sight!

That’s what happens when Sister Bear sees the horses at Miss Toni’s Riding School and Stable. Sister goes horse crazy! She dreams about horses. She writes stories about horses. She even finds a way to work horses into her math homework! Her dreams soon come true when she gets to take riding lessons with Old Bess, a sweet, slow mare. She may not be the fastest horse in the stable but when Old Bess veers off the beaten track, Sister is in for the ride of a lifetime!

Genres: Animals, Fiction

96 pages, Library Binding

First published June 25, 2002

About the author

Stan and Jan Berenstain (often called The Berenstains) were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series the Berenstain Bears. Their son Mike Berenstain joined them as a creative team in the late 1980s.

Reviews

[Alesha Smolak · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ride Like the Wind by Stan and Jan Berenstain is a picture book intended for the ages of 5 years old through 8 years old. Ride Like the Wind is about Sister Bear who loves horses. She soon starts taking riding lessons and realizes that it is not as easy as she thought. I rated this book a total of 2 stars. I chose 2 stars because it was a lot of reading. There were paragraphs that went on and the pictures did not have any color. The illustrations throughout the book were in black and white. I do recognize the book is intended for older children, rather than younger children; which may explain the picture issue. I think if I were a child between the ages of 5 and 8, I would not be interested in reading this book. I do not think young readers would find this book appealing because, in my opinion, it lacks interest. The resembles more of an adult book rather than a children’s book. All the text in the book looks the same, there is nothing inviting and interesting about it that grabs the reader's attention. The illustrations do not grab the reader's attention either. The moral of the story is to not judge a book by its cover and I do think that is important to teach children, but I think it could have been taught in a more attention-grabbing way.

[Rachel Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book on completion!

Great book on starting something and sticking with it all the way to the end. No matter if its slow.