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Train: A Journey Through the Pages Book
***A 2016 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) winner
You’ve never seen a book like this before! It’s the story of a train moving across the American landscape—but with an actual three-dimensional miniature train that loops up and down and across each spread, traveling along an interior track from front to back without ever leaving the pages.
Move the red steam engine out of the depot and to the front of the book, where the sun is just coming up over a bay, and then take a journey across wide plains, up mountains and down hills, into a city at night with its beacons of light—and finally, back to the rail yard. The panoramic landscapes are filled with marvelous details that young children will delight in discovering, and the sweet, simple rhyming language pulls the story along and will be happily repeated when it’s time to start the journey all over again. All aboard!
You’ve never seen a book like this before! It’s the story of a train moving across the American landscape—but with an actual three-dimensional miniature train that loops up and down and across each spread, traveling along an interior track from front to back without ever leaving the pages.
Move the red steam engine out of the depot and to the front of the book, where the sun is just coming up over a bay, and then take a journey across wide plains, up mountains and down hills, into a city at night with its beacons of light—and finally, back to the rail yard. The panoramic landscapes are filled with marvelous details that young children will delight in discovering, and the sweet, simple rhyming language pulls the story along and will be happily repeated when it’s time to start the journey all over again. All aboard!
14 pages, Hardcover
First published May 17, 2016
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November 9, 2016
Okay, this book isn't so much for the story as it is for the train. What do I mean by that? Well, you see, you can drive the train though the book! It can travel through each page as you go along, even while flipping the page!
Pretty nifty if you ask me.
Other than the train, the story that is inside is rather simple, but the illustrations. They are absolutely gorgeous and they are a great way to work on colors with your little! Each page is just so vibrant and hosts a main color theme. It is really quite nice to look at.
Your little may not even realize they are looking at a book and may think they are just playing, but that just makes this book even better.
Unless you have my kid. She has figured out how to take the train out (don't worry you can get it back in).
This review is based on a copy I received from the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review. All thoughts and opinions are mine and mine alone.
Find more of my reviews here:
http://readingwithcupcakes.blogspot.com/
Pretty nifty if you ask me.
Other than the train, the story that is inside is rather simple, but the illustrations. They are absolutely gorgeous and they are a great way to work on colors with your little! Each page is just so vibrant and hosts a main color theme. It is really quite nice to look at.
Your little may not even realize they are looking at a book and may think they are just playing, but that just makes this book even better.
Unless you have my kid. She has figured out how to take the train out (don't worry you can get it back in).
This review is based on a copy I received from the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review. All thoughts and opinions are mine and mine alone.
Find more of my reviews here:
http://readingwithcupcakes.blogspot.com/
January 4, 2017
This book is so cool! You drive a little toy train through a groove track from page to page (the book is ingenious with how the train travels from one page to the next without coming out of the track) and travel through different landscapes while the story goes on. Such a fun book for a boy (age 24 months) who loves all things that go!
December 20, 2017
I love the beautiful illustrations and the simple text. I really feel like I am driving across the country again. The concept is fabulous, but a star gets off because the track has gotten quite ragged, one side of the tab keeping the train on the track broke off, and the train itself is lost because it's so easy to pop off. The double-sided pages keep coming apart and I have to glue them. I don't feel like our use of the book warrants this much damage, and I know I'm cheaper than most but $22.95 is a bit steep for a book that falls apart this easily. It's one of those rare cases where the manufacturing is relevant to the book rating. But if I were rating it as a product and not a book, it'd be 2 stars.
December 1, 2018
Gorgeous illustrations! Love this concept. A little hard for A to navigate alone, but working on it.
November 16, 2016
In this sturdy board book children will be able to move a miniature train through the pages as it travels across various landscapes. A fun interactive book with bright illustrations, more toy than book for ages 4 to 6.
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