All Aboard! (An Abrams Extend-a-Book): Let's Ride A Train

by Nichole Mara, Andrew Kolb (Illustrations)

All Aboard! Let’s Ride a Train is an interactive, fold-out picture book from author Nichole Mara and illustrator Andrew Kolb.

Folding out car by car, this accordion-style book takes readers on a tour of what’s inside a train. Each car has something to find—things that make loud noises, things in different shapes—and along the way, a little child searches for his missing hat. The back of the book is a running landscape dotted with objects for children to find and count. All Aboard! Let’s Ride a Train is a fun, interactive ride from beginning to end.

“This delightful board book unfolds to become a train almost 6 feet long with lots to explore in each car. . . . In each car there are colors to spot, shapes to find, noisy things to identify, and lots of details to take in. On the verso, there is also much to see and identify as the train makes its traverse from countryside to urban setting. Young children and their adult readers will find plenty to keep them engaged. Right on track!” — Kirkus Reviews

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Transport, Trains

10 pages, Board Book

Published September 5, 2017

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

First sentence: The train is so crowded! How many people are wearing hats? Looks like someone lost theirs. Let's go through the train and find it. The quiet car is too quiet. Can you find something that crunches? Something that rings? What else do you see that makes lots of noise?

Premise/plot: All Aboard! Let's Ride a Train is a train-themed board book. There have been many, many train-themed board books. What makes this one unique? Well, this one is interactive. The train folds out. Flaps are lifted to reveal the story and the illustrations. As you will notice from what I quoted above, this one asks a lot of questions giving the reader and the child an opportunity to share an experience together, to dialogue about everything that is happening. The other side of the train tells a simple story as well. But it's not as detailed.

My thoughts: I like the fact that this one is interactive. I like that the illustrations--especially the interior illustrations of the train are so detailed. Some of the details are quite silly. I also like the windows allow for a peek-through experience. Before the flap is even lifted, the fun can begin.

[Beverly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once the reader unfolds all the cardboard pages, he finds a five-car train; each car has a flap to lift and items to look for in that train car. This book should amuse young children.

[Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book* · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kolb, Andrew All Aboard!: Let’s Ride A Train, illustrated by Nichole Mara. BOARD BOOK. Abrams Appleseed, 2017. $10. 9781419725678

Find and count all sorts of things as you ride the train and look outside the window and inside the train compartments with your fellow passengers. Find something noisy in the quiet compartment of the train. What colors can you see in the sleeping compartment of the train?

Who needs another book about trains? Your library. This interactive book is bound to fly off of the shelves because not only does it have lift-the-flaps, it also unfolds out into a long train. The illustrations are cartoon-like and eye-catching for small passengers.

Pre-K – ESSENTIAL. Samantha Hastings, MA, MLS.
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[Stacie · Rating 4 out of 5]

All Aboard! Let's Ride a Train is a fun filled, brilliantly illustrated lift-the-flap book that will keep children engaged until the very last page.

This is such a delightful book. I love how the entire book opens creating a train a long train. Creatively done, each train car has a flap that lifts to reveal passengers and activities for readers. On the reverse side is scenery as seen through the train's windows with questions encouraging children to seek the answers within the pages.

The illustrations are vibrantly detailed making each page a treasure to be discovered.

​I highly recommend picking up a copy.

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyone loved the concept of this book. And the fact that there was a different illustration on the back of the big fold out pages was just icing on the cake. I could have wished for a bit more detail in the drawings, more things to find, but really, it's an awesome book.

[Justine Ridder · Rating 2 out of 5]

REALLY cute board book, but I found it difficult trying to figure out how the story was supposed to go with it flipping in so many directions.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Neat! My kiddo is still too little to handle this on on his own, but he did get a kick out of me opening it up across his playroom so he could see all of the pictures at once.

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great gift idea for a little reader interested in trains.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The toy formatting is very interactive.

[Becky]

Interesting how the flaps unfold and then kids can look inside different cars on the train.