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Alphabet Trains - Hardcover

Vamos, Samantha R.

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9781580895927: Alphabet Trains

Synopsis

All aboard for a train ride through the alphabet! Whether chug-chug-chugging up a mountainside in an Incline train or zipping at super speed in a Bullet train, trains will get you where you need to be--A to Z!

There is a train--some familiar and some unusual--for every letter of the alphabet. Trains are used all over the world for carrying people and cargo from place to place. With a bouncy rhyming text, and clever illustrations full of visual cues, young readers will love learning all about trains.

A companion to the Children's Book Award nominated Alphabet Trucks!

CCBC Choices 2016: Annual best-of-the-year list of the Cooperative Children's Book Center.

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About the Author

Samantha is the author of six children's picture books.  "Alphabet Trucks," "Alphabet Trains," and "Alphabet Boats" (illustrated by Ryan O'Rourke) are rhyming alphabet books about 26 different vehicles from A to Z.
 
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Reviews

PreS-Gr 1—A cheerful rhyming text and painterly illustrations created in Adobe Photoshop offer young readers a different train for each letter of the alphabet. The simple language is straightforward without letting the rhyme become cloying: "G is for Glacier Express,/a scenic, alpine glide./H is for Hurricane Turn./Wave a flag to catch a ride." Each train is featured on its own page, allowing the page turns to reveal the next type of train. The book concludes with a spread with factual information on each of the trains depicted, further enhancing the book's appeal to train enthusiasts. VERDICT Pair this with Donald Crews's Freight Train (Greenwillow, 1978) and Margaret Wise Brown's Two Little Trains (HarperCollins, 2001) illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, for a high-speed storytime.—Lisa Kropp, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY

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Tear the ticket. Load the freight. Sound the whistle. Raise the gate. Clank! Chug-chug! Whoosh! Alphabet trains.

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