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The Magic Bicycle (Spirit Flyer)

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I read this book to my class every year and it is their favorite, over such greats as James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Students love to try to figure it out and I enjoy hearing their ideas. I teach third grade and for the next years they are finishing up the series. I read the first one as a read aloud and couldn't wait to finish the series on my own. John Bibee has a great imagination and knows how to use cliffhangers. I highly recommend this for families to read aloud. It will work well with third grade and up including middle schoolers. It may be too scarey for younger children. The discussions will be wonderful. It has a strong message and is a wonderful fantasy.

Bibee's "Magic Bicycle" goes beyond children's reading. Skillfully revealed are numerous Biblical truths that even an adult can understand. Wrapped in an intrigueing, yet simple plot are feelings we have all felt, and situations we have all experienced. Both children and grown-ups will love it.

This second book of the "Spirit Flyer Series" isoutstanding. It is easy to read, has an exciting plot that applies towhat kids deal with today, and the spiritual truths are profound. We read these aloud to our children and they could hardly wait to see what was going to happen in each new chapter. They likes them so much that they read the books again for themselves. We parents enjoyed them just as much. END

I'm speechless, the spirt flyers books are one of the best books ever created. It's just sad that I can't find any in the bookstores,I wan't to read them all again and again and again!

John Kramar was a normal kid in Centerville with a passion for riding his bike. Just like any kid John had his enemies, known as the Cobra Club. The club's leader Barry first asked John to be the first official member and right hand man in the club. When John denied Barry's offer John became the number one enemy of the Cobras. After John's bike was run over by Roger's older brother he needed a new one. Roger took John to the dump to look for a new bike. What they found was more than a bike; it was a Spirit Flyer, made by The Three Kings. When John took the bike home he dismantled the horn, lights, gear shifter, and generator. These looked like ordinary objects, but through out the book John found that the bike holds magical powers. These powers are provided by The Three Kings that are constantly fighting the powers of Tragic, also known as the Deeper World. This Deeper World fights against the good willed powers of Magic. The ordinary bike accessories, proved to be a good defense against the Deeper World. The bikes that the Cobras rode were made and sold exclusively from Goliath Toys; a world leader in toy manufacturing. The Cobra bikes also possessed powers, but these powers were of the opposite of The Three Kings. They were the soldiers of the deeper world. This bike takes John to new heights and places as he battles the tragic forces of the Deeper World and the Cobra Club.

I cannot recommend this book AT ALL! Certainly not for children. Yes Christian symbolism is woven into the story but the evil is woven even heavier. If you want your child to read about a giant serpent in the sky with two big fangs oozing with poison that chases and tries to eat the boy, and about a man in a truck with the face of someone dead and glowing red eyes with bared teeth snarling like a rabid dog chasing a boy on a bike down the road, a creature that sprays a mist so that as the family comes into the house they smell something dead and then pass out on top of each other followed by the creature taking a glowing red fang shaped hook and attaching it to an invisible chain on around their neck one by one dragging their bodies into a truck, then this is the book for you. But wait there's more. . . glowing telephones that hiss with his family screaming for help because it's awful and dark followed by a dark voice threatening for the boy to return home if he ever wants to see his family alive again. He flies into the mouth of the giant serpent in the sky, the mouth of darkness that smelled of death to find his family. He finds
them chained together with heavy dark chains around their neck. The creature threatens to kill his family and feed them to the other creatures unless he signs, in blood, his life over to Treason, the future king of the Deeper World.
Parts of this book made me want to vomit, and I'm 34 years old. How is a young child supposed to process these horrible descriptions and not have nightmares! My oldest is 11 she WON'T be reading it. It focuses too much on the evil. Let us focus on who we are in Christ. Colossians 1:13 "(God) who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom ofhis dear Son." Colossians 2:15 "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."