About this item
Toddlers love trains and the noises they make. uses repeating verse and bright photographs to match this enthusiasm with a unique take on the conceptual sound book that is perfect for reading aloud. Each spread uses onomatopoeia to highlight the ting-a ling! of subway door chimes, the chuff-a-gruff-a! of a diesel engine, and more. And after the children have sung along through the colorful pages, a final note to caregivers offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child's foundational learning skills. A first expectation of kindergarten curriculums is for preschoolers to explore sounds, rhythms, and language structures. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That and Shape Up, Construction Trucks!, Victoria Allenby's invites its young audience to recognize the songs of the trainyard and to proudly sing their own.
About the Author
Victoria Allenby grew up in a small Ontario town where she climbed trees, scraped her knees, and wrote down everything that happened to her. Usually in verse. As a young woman she moved to Toronto to study English and continued to write things down; one of those things was a poem called "Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That," which was acquired by Pajama Press and turned into a picture book. Victoria dreams of never growing up to become anything, and much prefers eternal childhood, thank you very much. She lives with Cole, her muse and handler, who enjoys catnip mice, belly rubs, and - most of all - naps.
