Wind-up Train

by Fiona Watt (Artist)

A toy and a book in one, this large, chunky board book comes with a wind-up toy steam train. Wind the train up and set in on the embedded track in each page to see it chugging along through the countryside. Each of the four tracks is removable, and together they combine to make one giant train track.

Genres: Childrens

Board Book

First published October 1, 2014

About the author

Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She started working at Usborne in 1989 and has written and edited hundreds of books including baby and novelty, sticker, art and craft, cookery, science and activity books.
Fiona graduated from Exeter University with a B.Ed. (Hons.), specialising in Psychology and Art and Design. After university she worked as a researcher and writer for a company which published educational material for places where children went on school visits (zoos, museums, stately homes etc). She then taught seven, eight, and nine year olds for five years; three years at a state school in Sevenoaks in Kent, and two years at The British School in the Netherlands in The Hague.

Having joined Usborne in 1989, Fiona became an editorial director in 2003, largely responsible for writing baby and novelty books, as well as art and activity titles. She has written over 100 titles for Usborne Publishing, perhaps most notably the, ‘That’s not my ….‘ touchy-feely series.

Reviews

[Astri Yulianty · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is super-large and heavy! my son love the train and racetracks, it's fun to play with.

For an interactive book, this is quite amusing, and I love how you could take the train tracks board off the book and arrange it into a super long track.

One thing that could be improved from this book is the cutting. On some parts, the track is located too close to the edge of the book that the train wheels falls off and it stopped. It would be so much nicer if they give more allowance for the wheels.

[Jay Gabler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant design.