Eye Books and Can of Worms have donated copies of Alastair Humphreys’ wonderful kid’s book The Boy Who Biked the World as prizes to schools participating in SUSTRANS, The Big Pedal.
The Big Pedal is a giant inter-school cycling competition spanning 15 school days in March (5-23 March 2012). It works a bit like the Tour de France in that each day of the race is a new stage following a different Sustrans cycle route around the UK.
You can find out more here: The Big Pedal
About The Boy Who Biked the World: Tom really wants to be an explorer.

When Tom’s head isn’t in the clouds it’s in an atlas. He follows adventurers not footballers and his schooldays are spent dreaming about travelling from Tibet to Timbuktu. One day a private wish blurted out loud started his freewheeling adventure:
“I’m going to cycle around the world.”
His classmates laughed. No one believed him, least of all his teacher.
“The mountains will be too high!” “The deserts too hot!”
Everyone shouted their reasons why his dream was impossible.
But it was a funny thing: the more people told him he couldn’t do it, the more Tom found himself wanting to prove them wrong.
Ride along with Tom as he overcomes his fears and sets off on the first part of his biggest ever adventure: to try to become the boy who biked the world.
£5.99 – The Boy Who Biked the World – |
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