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Freight Train: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
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Freight Train: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner Paperback - 1992

by Donald Crews; Donald Crews (Illustrator)

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Cars are convenient; planes are fast; buses are cheap; but not one of these conveyances holds a candle to a train--and Donald Crews proves it in this "color concept book of outstanding quality" (Boston Globe). The train moves slowly at first, then it picks up speed, zooming across the page in a majestic blur of color, speed, and sound. Full color.

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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: "The 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.

First line

A train runs across this track.

From the rear cover

In powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes 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.

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  • Title Freight Train: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
  • Author Donald Crews; Donald Crews (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 24
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenwillow Books, New York
  • Publication date 1992-09-18
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780688117016 / 0688117015
  • Weight 0.21 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 9.8 x 0.1 in (20.32 x 24.89 x 0.25 cm)
  • Age range 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Themes
    • Topical: Home School
  • Category Children's Books/Baby-Preschool
  • Library of Congress subjects Color, Railroads - Trains
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 78002303
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 10/05/1992, Page 0

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