Award-winning and best-selling books
This page represents many years of passionate work by the author Scott Stoll—that’s me! I hope someday to see the dreams in these books become reality.
Update: Yes! We’re seeing lots of dreams come true now. Thanks! Keep sending us news of your dreams and adventures.
About the author Scott Stoll
Scott Stoll asked himself a question: “If I could do anything, what would I do?” His answer resulted in a quest for happiness around the world on a bicycle (32,344 miles, 4 years, 59 countries, 6 continents). His adventures are chronicled in his best-selling and award-winning book “Falling Uphill,” a tale described as having moments from pure survival to pure enlightenment. He was honored to be the Cultural Ambassador to Argentina by the US Department of State and received the Hosteling International’s “Spirit of Adventure Award,” among other distinctions. Not least of all, Scott is proud to have been blogging since before blogging was even a word.
Learn more about Scott’s mission and this website. You might like to see more stories about Scott in the Press Room.
Feel Your Feelings
Hardcover picture book. Ages 2–7.
New 2022.
Feel your feelings introduces children to basic emotions with fun poems that they can act out from head to toe. They will learn that emotions are our friends. Some emotions show us what we love, others protect us from harm, and all of them put together, like colors on an artist’s palette, paint a beautiful picture of life.
Dream It! A Playbook to Spark Your Awesomeness
Synopsis: Do you want to live the biggest, brightest, best life possible? Do you want to create things never seen before? Do you want to do things never done before? Do you want your life to mean something and make a difference? In other words, do you want to feel and be awesome? If so, this book is for you!
Dream It! is chock full of activities, games, and brainstorming questions to help you discover your passions, identify your strengths and values, create brand-new, unique-to-you dreams… and ultimately open the door to a life full of possibilities! So get ready—with this playbook as your guide, not even the sky’s the limit.
Mirabella the Monarch’s Magical Migration
Children’s chapter book. Ages 5-12 and beyond.
Synopsis: Every year the monarch butterflies undertake the most amazing migration on Earth. Over the course of four generations, they travel from Canada to Mexico and back. This is an educational story about their challenging journey and the inspirational story of how one generation can inspire the next to make the world a better place.
Falling Uphill
One man’s quest for happiness around the world on a bicycle
New Anniversary Edition. Over one year in making with bonus chapters and postscripts. This is Scott’s magnum opus, the best-selling book about his 4-year journey searching for the meaning of life (as featured in the New York Times), including many harrowing adventures, like being thrown in prison, mugged at gunpoint, nearly dying of dehydration, and equally as many heartwarming moments. Available in a paper book, audiobook, ebook and there is also a young adult edition, children’s chapter book in both English and Spanish as well as an adult Korean edition.
Falling Uphill: The Young Adult Edition
Ages 8 and above.
The true story of one man’s quest around the world on a bicycle seeking the meaning of life.
To help make this book available to low-income schools around the world, I’ve decided to publish it online one frequently asked question at a time. Additionally, it comes with a teacher’s guide and classroom activities to help students turn their dreams into reality.
Sold out! Thank you. Please contact us if you are interested in placing a bulk order. We’ll order more.
Falling Uphill: The Secret of Life
Children’s chapter book. Ages 5-12 and beyond.
Read it before you buy it. Synopsis: This is the true story about a man who bicycles around the world questing for the secret of life. His journey is full of many wonders, but he eventually returns home discouraged—only then does he discover the secret in the last place left to look.
Cayendo Hacia Arriba: El Secreto De La Vida
Children’s chapter book. Ages 5-12 and beyond.
It was the honor of a lifetime to be invited by the US Embassy and the schools of Argentina to collaborate on this special Spanish edition featuring all-new illustrations from the point of view of the Argentina culture and several new pages just for the Spanish edition.
The Cupcake Boy
Children’s chapter book. Ages 5-12 and beyond.
“The Cupcake Boy” is the story about a boy who makes the most beautiful and tasty cupcakes in the world; however, the villagers take the boy for granted. So disheartened, he leaves his home wondering: “Why should I bake cupcakes for a world that doesn’t love me?”
Ruby the Red Worm’s Dirty Job
Children’s chapter book. Ages 5-12 and beyond.
My adventures around the world have evolved into working with schools. This is a humorous and educational introduction to composting and the essential role worms serve in the ecosystem. More importantly, it is a story about living a life of passion despite life’s bullies — even if it means eating dirt.
Books by other authors
With stories about Scott and friends
Pedal Power: Inspirational Stories from the World of Cycling
Scott Stoll has a chapter about his bicycle journeys and how his adventures fuel a desire to make the world a better place.
Synopsis: A bike can be so many different things—a simple way of navigating busy city streets or enjoying quiet lanes, a cross-country steed to take a rider up hill and down dale, or even a world-beating racing machine. What unites everyone who rides is that they each have their own cycling story to tell. This book collects inspirational stories from riders around the world, both ordinary and extraordinary, from the London cyclist who rode 10,000 km in a month, to the daredevil trials rider who hops from building to building, to classic tales of grand-tour rivalries and legendary cycling records of days gone by. Essential reading for anyone who loves life on two wheels.
By the Seat of My Pants
New 2018 Edition. Scott Stoll has a co-starring role in Edwin Tucker’s “Let the Buyer Beware”. This story is based on the funniest chapter in “Falling Uphill” but from Edwin’s POV.
Synopsis: Humorous tales of travel and misadventure. Lonely Planet knows that some of life’s funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable – and hilarious – travel stories. These 31 globegirdling tales that run the gamut from close-encounter safaris to loss-of-face follies, hair-raising rides to culture-leaping brides, eccentric expats to mind-boggling repasts, wrong roads taken to agreements mistaken. The collection brings together some of the world’s most renowned travellers and storytellers with previously unpublished writers.
Favorite bicycle touring books
The Wheels of Chance; A Bicycling Idyll
H.G. Wells wasn’t just a visionary when it came to time machines or men walking on the moon, he also wrote the very first book about bicycle touring, which helped give rise to the female emancipation movement. Read the free ebook here.
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