Animals Aboard!

by Andrew Fusek Peters, Jim Coplestone (Illustrator)

There is a party on the train and all the animals are jumping aboard with their instruments. Follow the pace and rhythm of a locomotive as the party starts off slow and gets wilder and wilder then slows back down to a snooze at bedtime.

Genres: Picture Books, Trains, Storytime, Animals

24 pages, Hardcover

First published September 28, 2007

About the author

Andrew Fusek Peters is a poet, anthologist, and playwright who has written and edited more than seventy children’s books. He also collected poems for HERE'S A LITTLE POEM: A VERY FIRST BOOK OF POETRY. He lives in Shropshire, England.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Children love it!

[Xisa Dove · Rating 4 out of 5]

Animals Aboard is a book about animals getting on a train and having a fun time. The book is written in a song-like poetic feel to it and includes animal sounds as well. The book is fun and cute for kids. It's a bit difficult to do a read-aloud because of the rhythmic words, but would be fun to have in your class room.

[Library Quine · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this rhyming story noisy animals join the train one by one. There is a nice rythum and a party atmosphere when the musical intruments are played. The story slows pleasing towards the end as the animals tire, the train slows and finally stops with the animals and driver falling fast asleep. A nice book to conclude a storytime session.

[Mandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Animals climb aboard a train and they party and dance all through the night.

This story must e read aloud with the kids listening and chiming in. Would be great to introduce each animal's instruments too!

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute story with a train and lots of animals noises to make. Also lots of instruments and music mentioned, so a very fun read aloud for toddlers and up.