My Little Train
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Little Train toots along, taking all his passengers exactly where they want to go. "To the pond!" says the duck. "To the forest!" says the monkey. "To the mountain!" says the bear. But Little Kangaroo doesn't say a word. He wants to go on an adventure with Little Train-adventure that leads him up a mountain, off a cliff, and back where he belongs: in his mama's pocket.
This endearing picture book is perfect for train, toy and adventure lovers everywhere.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Toys took to the skies in Ichikawa's Come Fly with Me (2008); here, stuffed animals climb aboard a wooden train that emerges from a tunnel fashioned from stacks of picture books. Each announces where it would like to go (" To the pond,' says a duck. Quack, quack. To the field,' says a sheep. Baa, baa"), and Ichikawa's soft watercolors reveal destinations that are ripped from kids' playtime imaginations. The pond is a fishbowl, a bear's "mountain" consists of pillows on a sofa, and a lamb's "meadow" is a lovely, loose rendition of Monet's Poppy Field in Argenteuil. The sole remaining passenger is a kangaroo that helps rescue the train when it tumbles off a "cliff," before the train returns it safely to its mother's pouch. Ichikawa makes excellent use of varied, skewed perspectives to bring readers into the action, staring down at the train while a monkey swings from a houseplant, or following it into the dark recesses of a pillow tunnel. Repeated animal noises and train sounds encourage readers to lend their voices to this whimsical read-aloud. Ages 3 8.
