Overview
Passenger trains. Freight trains. Subways. There are trains to take people to work or to play. There are trains that carry different kinds of freight. They zip through cities and across the countryside.Ride the rails from A to Z. Find out what a Coupler is for, what it is like to be in the Engineer's cab, what a piggyback Freight car looks like.
All aboard! Let's go!
An alphabet book introducing the world of trains.
Synopsis
Passenger trains. Freight trains. Subways. There are trains to take people to work or to play. There are trains that carry different kinds of freight. They zip through cities and across the countryside.
Ride the rails from A to Z. Find out what a Coupler is for, what it is like to be in the Engineer's cab, what a piggyback Freight car looks like.
All aboard! Let's go!
Publishers Weekly
Magee and Newman are right on track with this eye-catching alphabet book that focuses on a well-loved subject: trains. Intelligently framed color photographs, shot from a variety of perspectives, stoke reader interest (`` I, i : Inside , looking out, this is what the engineer sees,'' reads the caption for a photo starkly depicting the view from within a car; another particularly successful image is a closeup of springs on a railroad car, illustrating S ). Design and text are creatively integrated: the illustration of a switch, for example, requires the viewer to focus on first one photo of train tracks, and then another. Letters of the alphabet and their corresponding vocabulary words in the text are set off in red ink, unifying the book's concept as well as fanning its visual spark. Ages 3-8. (Sept.)