Trains: Steaming! Pulling! Huffing! - Hardcover

Hubbell, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761451943 ISBN 13: 9780761451945

Publisher: Two Lions, 2005

Synopsis

Trains, trains, trains! Giant engines snorting, puffing, steaming, pulling, rushing, huffing! All kinds of trains, from cabooses to hoppers and commuter trains to zoo trains, clickety-clack along the tracks. The mixed-media illustrations using clip art, etchings, original drawings, and maps will remind parents and grandparents of an earlier time. Children will enjoy the collages, puns, and delightful wordplay throughout.

About this title

About the Author:

Author Patricia Hubbell is the author of ten books of poetry for children, including Boo! Halloween Poems and Limericks as well as Trucks: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble! Her poems appear in numerous anthologies. She lives in Easton, Connecticut.

Illustrators Megan Halsey and Sean Addy work in a studio in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Ms. Halsey also illustrated Trucks: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble!

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1–This book introduces every possible kind of train through a rollicking rhyme: Silver trains. Black trains./Speeding-down-the-track trains./Passenger trains. Freight trains./Crossing-every-state trains. The text will have readers building up steam and momentum until the very last page, when the trains and children can both rest. Unfortunately, the illustrations combine drawings, clip art, etchings, and maps, and they are too busy. Busy can be good, but with the small size of this book and its potential as a great read-aloud, the pictures are extremely distracting. On one spread, the workers are named, but the illustrations of them below the text do not line up, and small labels next to the figures indicate their jobs. It also seems as though the book were squeezed as much as possible in order to fit into 32 pages and uses every last inch of space. Stick with Michael Rex's My Freight Train (Holt, 2002) or Philemon Sturgess's I Love Trains! (HarperCollins, 2001).–Genevieve Gallagher, Murray Elementary School, Charlottesville, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Two Lions
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0761451943
• ISBN 13: 9780761451945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Halsey Megan, Addy Sean