The titles in the 'Kingfisher Readers' series will guide young readers as they build confidence and fluency in their literacy skills and progress towards reading alone.
Based in New York City, Thea Feldman is a prolific writer and editor with over 250 children’s books to her credit. She has collaborated with major publishers, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals. She lives with her cat, Rose, who enjoys lounging on her manuscripts.
Most pages contain one or two short sentences, but there are some difficult words like "locomotive" and "engineer". Good photos and interesting text. My son liked it.
I've read a lot of picture books about trains this year. A lot. This one is my favorite. It explains about the different parts of the train (locomotive, conductor, etc) without getting too specific (FRED, or Flashing Read End Device, features in another train book that overstayed its welcome in my house). The book features passenger, freight, mail, commuter, and speed trains, with accompanying pictures for all. A big hit with the train lover in my home.
I wanted a book about trains and this one was OK, but you know what the best train books are? The grown up ones, because they're big and thick and heavy like a train is! So the books should be too. But it had good pictures in it and new words.