Freight Train - A Caldecott Honor Award Winner

Zusatztext "A color concept book of outstanding quality.” Informationen zum Autor Donald Crews is the renowned creator of many celebrated children's books, including the Caldecott Honor Books Freight Train and Truck . He and his wife, Ann Jonas, live in New York's Hudson River Valley. Donald Crews is the renowned creator of many celebrated children's books, including the Caldecott Honor Books Freight Train and Truck . He and his wife, Ann Jonas, live in New York's Hudson River Valley. Klappentext Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train. The powerful words evoke the essence of inexorably rolling wheels, so that even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he has watched a freight train passing. A book truly for the youngest child—and for every one of us who has been that child. Zusammenfassung In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train. This Caldecott Honor Book features bright colors and bold shapes. Even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he or she has watched a freight train passing after reading Freight Train . Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents' farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite. New York magazine's The Strategist chose Freight Train as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "T he Caldecott Honor Book is spare and minimal in both art and text and follows the journey of a freight train and all its cars until it rolls off the page and into the distance. It’s a good way to learn all the different names of train cars, too." Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train. ...

Product details

• Authors: Donald Crews
• Assisted by: Donald Crews (Illustration)
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2003
• EAN: 9780688801656
• ISBN: 978-0-688-80165-6
• No. of pages: 24
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Play, learning > Learning; JUVENILE FICTION: Classics, JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Counting & Numbers, JUVENILE FICTION: Travel, JUVENILE FICTION: Technology / General, JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Colors, JUVENILE FICTION: Transportation / Cars & Trucks, JUVENILE FICTION: Interactive Adventures, JUVENILE FICTION: Art, JUVENILE FICTION: Transportation / Railroads & Trains, JUVENILE FICTION: Mathematics, JUVENILE FICTION: Transportation / Cars, Trucks & Buses