Can Do: Cantaloupe and HoneyDo Ride a Bike

PreS-Gr 2–Cantaloupe has a brand-spanking-new bike. HoneyDo is excited and wants to see Cantaloupe take it for a spin. Cantaloupe can’t! HoneyDo can’t see why not. HoneyDo accepts Cantaloupe’s invitation to take a ride with great enthusiasm, while comic illustrations reveal that HoneyDo does not actually know how—yet! This duo of able-bodied, nongendered melons with stick-figure limbs that stretch like Rubber Man’s will have readers contorted in laughter as HoneyDo sets the stage for the more-knowledgeable Cantaloupe to be the teacher, while delivering a lesson about growth mindset, the value of making mistakes, practice, and persevering through challenges with good humor. As he did with Bad Dog, Boldt has hit comic paydirt with this hilarious read-aloud which combines photographs of melons and a cruiser bicycle and Sponge Bob-style illustrations to design features and limbs.