A little boy goes on train trip with a engineer who shows him everything he needs to know about trains. He tells him how the trains work and who works certain parts. He also talks about the people you may see on a train ride, different cars, what the trains hold and bring, and different freight they may see. Thee engineer is very enthusiastic and takes you on a railroading experience. ( )

This book does a pretty good job of bringing train jargon into some understandable context though at times it seemed as though fitting in some new phrase trumped the quality of the story. I liked it anyway. It's a book worth having in the collection for the children that live and die by trains. If nothing else, it gives them a reprieve from the nonfiction texts that are so plentiful on the topic. ( )

This is an example of realistic fiction. It is set in present day and tells the story of a boy who rides the trains for a day and explores all the different parts of a train trip. The characters are realistic as well as the setting and plot.
Art Media: watercolors
Appropriate Age: Primary ( )