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An engaging, multilayered read-aloud that celebrates preschoolers' love of trains while exploring sound, rhyme, and rhythm
About the author
Victoria Allenby has been writing poetry and stories for as long as she can remember. Her debut picture book, Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, won the 2014 Preschool Reads Award and was nominated for the 2015 SYRCA Shining Willow Award. She has followed up the success of this debut with the critically acclaimed early readers Timo's Garden, Timo's Party, and Timo Goes Camping, as well as several picture books, including Shape Up, Construction Trucks! which has earned multiple starred reviews. Victoria lived all of her childhood within hearing distance of train tracks and loves the faint call of a whistle in the night. She now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Summary
here do the trains go?
There and back.
Let's sing a train song
All down the track.
Toddlers love trains and the noises they make. Listen Up! Train Song uses repeating verse and bright photographs to match this enthusiasm with a unique take on the conceptual sound book that is perfect for reading aloud. Each spread uses onomatopoeia to highlight the ting-a ling! of subway door chimes, the chuff-a-gruff-a! of a diesel engine, and more. And after the children have sung along through the colorful pages, a final note to caregivers offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child's foundational learning skills.
A first expectation of kindergarten curriculums is for preschoolers to explore sounds, rhythms, and language structures. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That and Shape Up, Construction Trucks!, Victoria Allenby's Listen Up! Train Song invites its young audience to recognize the songs of the trainyard and to proudly sing their own.
Foreword
- 6,000-copy print run
- Pitch to major review media, including The New York Times, The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
- Targeted marketing to major review centers, influential bloggers, and major library system selectors
- Featured at select library conferences
- Classroom guide for educators
- Promotion on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest
- E-newsletter promotion
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Praise for Listen Up! Train Song
★ STARRED REVIEW “Train lovers will delight in this book featuring photos of trains. [A] perfect match for story hours about things that go. The back matter provides three developmentally appropriate activities and prompts to increase and extend engagement with children, making this a first purchase for the shelves.”—School Library Journal Starred Review
"Locomotive-loving storytimers rejoice! Your newest read-aloud is here...Participation possibilities abound with the consistently inventive train sounds, and the bright and colorful images will be easy to see from across a room....All aboard! The littlest readers with a yen for the rails are bound to bounce with delight."—Kirkus Reviews
“An excellent way to introduce rhyming to young readers. [A] perfect read to pair with a hands-on activity. Similar to other books in this series the author also provides...ways that parents and educators can deepen the learning process with this book.” —Youth Services Book Review
“Allenby’s book encourages participation and imagination, singing, and practicing rhyming… a solid, participatory read, and a highly recommended companion title for any young readers who love transportation or train books, or who have loved Shape Up, Construction Trucks!.”—Fab Book Reviews
