Review by Booklist Review
Ages 1-3. For the youngest train lovers, here's a bright, simple picture book by an illustrator with proven appeal. Freight and passenger trains trundle across the pages through a busy, friendly land where even the cows smile benevolently. Clear, vivid colors add to the bustle, but there's a restraint underlying the potentially overbusy artwork. The structured composition of the horizontal, double-page spreads anchors even complicated scenes such as a country landscape with three trains on different tracks or a cityscape with elevated trains above the street traffic. While the convention of using dressed animals as characters works well in general, the line ``Passenger trains carry people'' is a bit jarring when there are no people in sight, just foxes in people's clothing. There's little information in the brief text, but visually this book provides a genial, colorful introduction to trains. CP. 625.1 Railroads-Trains [CIP] 87-22180
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
In her typically vibrant style, Rockwell scrutinizes numerous types of train transportation. Ages 3-6. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1 A bright addition to Rockwell's popular transportation series, Trains is another winning choice for young patrons who love things that go. Rockwell's usual colorful, amusing watercolors illustrate the simplest of texts. In vintage Rockwell fashion, her terrain is ``peopled'' with animal characters, in this case, foxes. The friendly tone of the book, the use of the first person at the conclusion, and the book's beginning and ending with toy trains heighten the appeal to preschoolers. The variety of trains, including freight, passenger, subways, and monorails, is certain to engage small armchair engineers. Rockwell again succeeds in creating an informational picture book that is right on target: it's accurate, colorful, brief, and interesting. Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, Maine (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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