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Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Full-color photographs show trains and related noise-making features including brakes, engines horns, crossings, and door chimes. Repeating text identifies the machine and presents rhythmic onomatopoeia for the sound it produces. A final spread directed at caregivers shares age-appropriate enrichment activities for toddlers learning to identify sounds, rhyme, rhythm, and related language structures."--
82) Choo-choo school
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
"No racing in the haul-ways! From the [...] author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a look at seven adorable train cars on their first day of school. All aboard the train-car pool! A new lineup of students is off and rolling to Choo-Choo School. After reciting their classroom rules -- Work hard, play fair, be kind -- it's time for some math to get the wheels turning. Then everyone's ready to climb a hill in gym (it's good to blow off steam), sing songs in music...
Publisher
The Jim Henson Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Buddy and his family take a special trip on the Night Train to learn about animals that are nocturnal. They take a fun nature walk under the full moon, visit a haunted house for a spooky party, and learn all about Gourd Day, a Mesozoic Halloween!
Author
Series
Engineer Ari books volume 2
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When the friends he's made on the new railroad line give Engineer Ari things to help build and decorate a sukkah in his courtyard, he's sad that they can't come and enjoy it with him.
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Get ready, get set, go! When the best engines from around the world gather to compete in The Great Railway Show, Thomas is determined to find a way to represent Sodor. But he's left disappointed as Gordon is chosen to be the new "Shooting Star" for The Great Race. With Gordon and the other engines making the journey to compete, something suddenly goes terribly wrong, and Gordon is in danger!
87) The last train
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Song lyrics about the bygone era of the mighty iron horse are paired with detailed paintings that pay tribute to life around a little railroad station.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 51
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
©1996.
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are on a train from Boston to San Francisco. Even though they used to live in a boxcar, this is the first time they've ridden a real, moving train. And they find a mystery to solve even before they leave the station. Is someone trying to steal a young woman's portfolio? Could it be the porter? Or is it the tall, bearded man who always wears sunglasses -- even at night? What's in the portfolio, anyway? Can the Boxcar...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle―this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board! Accident . . . or murder? With help from a new friend, Winston (and his mongoose, Chipo), Hal is determined to figure...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
It's so busy on the island of Sodor that Sir Topham Hatt needs to bring in some new engines to keep the railway running smoothly. There is Spencer, the fastest express engine the island has ever seen. Meet Emily, the sleek green engine with the beautiful brass dome. And new friend Arthur, whose spotless record gets ruined when Thomas plays a trick on him. Join Thomas and his new friends for train loads of discovery and fun.
98) Big Choo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Little Choo wants to be just like his father Papa Pufferbelly, but pulling a line of freight cars up a steep mountain might be a little too much for the small engine.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Marty goes in search of the mythical Train of Lost Things, hoping that by finding his heart's possession he can save his father from cancer, but he discovers that, without a driver and conductor, the train is malfunctioning and only Marty and his new friends can fix it.
100) Another kind of Eden
Author
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver,...
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