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I Can Make a Train Noise

Michael Emberley - Neal Porter Books
Format: Hardcover

When a girl shouts "I can make a train noise, now!" her imagination transforms a coffee shop into a zooming train, and her words clickity-clack across the tracks and blare like a train horn.In a flash, salt shakers and ketchup bottles become skyscrapers, and the girl's voice...
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Two Little Trains

Margaret Wise Brown - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

"Skillfully designed and composed, Pizzoli's cheerful interpretation is thoroughly modern and charming. Swoonworthy for train lovers and preschoolers alike." -- Kirkus (starred review) The classic picture book from Margaret Wise Brown about two trains and their cross-country...
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I Like Trains

Daisy Hirst

Whether sending toy animals on a journey around a model track or driving a cardboard-box locomotive, this little puppy really likes trains. All aboard! But best of all is riding a real train to visit someone special - and playing with more trains there! Simple yet evocative prose
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Trains Run!

George Ella Lyon - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover

We've already learned that trucks roll, planes fly, and boats float. Now, all aboard for the fourth book in George Ella Lyon's transportation series, and this time learn all about trains! Train travels down the track - all day gone all night back. Trains run! From steam engines...
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Overground Railroad

Lesa Cline-Ransome - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Ruth Ellen's odyssey on the New York Bound Silver Meteor is the start of a new life up North that she can't begin to imagine in this gorgeously illustrated picture book.In poems, illustrated with collage art, a perceptive girl tells the story of her train journey from North Carolina to New York...
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Snakes on a Train

Kathryn Dennis - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

An adorable picture book full of sibilant sounds and other word play, Snakes on a Train is as fun for parents as it is for kids, and sure to be a read-aloud hit. The conductor takes the tickets as the snakes start crawling on. The tracks are checked, the whistle...
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Freight Train

Donald Crews - Mulberry Books
Format: Paperback

In powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the essence of inexorably rolling wheels, so that even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he has watched a freight train passing.A book truly for the youngest child -- and for every one of us who has been...
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Trains Board Book

Byron Barton - HarperFestival
Format: Print book

Byron Barton introduces young readers to the fun of trains in this bold and colorful book. All aboard as the train journeys through a town, past workers repairing the rails and into the station. With simple text and vibrant illustrations, readers will learn about a variety of trains and what...
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Shark vs. Train

Chris Barton - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Shark VS. Train! WHO WILL WIN?!If you think Superman vs. Batman would be an exciting matchup, wait until you see Shark vs. Train. In this hilarious and wacky picture book, Shark and Train egg each other on for one competition after another, including burping, bowling, Ping Pong, piano playing,...
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Choo Choo

Virginia Lee Burton - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Paperback

The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties.
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Locomotive

Brian Floca - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover

The Caldecott Medal Winner, Sibert Honor Book, and New York Times bestseller Locomotive is a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America's early railroads, from the creator of the "stunning" (BOOKLIST ) Moonshot.It is the summer of 1869, and trains,...
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Monster Trains

Nick Gordon - Bellwether Media
Format: Hardcover

Some trains have so many cars that they are miles long. The longest freight train in history had 682 cars filled with iron ore. This beast of a train needed eight locomotives to pull it forward! This book will keep beginning readers chugging along.
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Steam Train, Dream Train

Sherri Duskey Rinker - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car with ice cream, elephants fill the tanker...
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The Goodnight Train

June Sobel - Harcourt
Format: Print book

All aboard for Dreamland! Hold on to your pillow because the Goodnight Train is taking off. Roll that corner, rock that curve, and soar past mermaids, leaping sheep, and even ice-cream clouds. You won't want to miss a thing, so whatever you do, don't . . . close . . . your . . . eyes!
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All Aboard the Dinotrain

Deb Lund - Sandpiper
Format: Paperback

They stoke the boiler, stow the luggage, and when hills are steep, they even get out and push. That's right, the thrill-seeking daredevil dinosaurs from Dinosailors are back, and now they're riding a train. But this train is more like a roller coaster--up, down, and faster and faster,...
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Trains: Steaming! Pulling! Huffing!

Patricia Hubbell - Marshall Cavendish
Format: Hardcover

Trains, trains, trains! Giant engines snorting, puffing, steaming, pulling, rushing, huffing! All kinds of trains, from cabooses to hoppers and commuter trains to zoo trains, clickety-clack along the tracks. The mixed-media illustrations using clip art, etchings, original drawings, and maps...
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And the Train Goes...

William Bee - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Climb aboard for a quirky look at life on a train, chock-full of sound words and sly surprises.CHUFF-CHUFF, CHUFFERTY-CHUFF...PUFF-PUFF, PUFFERTY-PUFF...Heres one train you dont want to miss! From the stout stationmaster to the chickens a-laying, from a traveling teapot to a chaotic class...
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Steam, Smoke, and Steel: Back in Time with Trains

Patrick O'Brien - Charlesbridge
Format: Book

All aboard! This train travels through history making stops in time to learn about the progress of travel by rail.Hop up into the cab of a speeding modern-day locomotive and look down the tracks into the past. Perhaps these are the same tracks that the diesel-electric locomotives of thirty...
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Two Little Trains

Margaret Wise Brown - HarperCollins Children's
Format: Paperback

Puff, Puff, Puff Chug, Chug, Chug Two little trains are heading West. One is a shiny, streamlined train, moving fast. The other is a little old train, moving not so fast. Both will travel through long dark tunnels, through snow and dust. What else can they have in common? Much more than...
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Mr. Putter & Tabby Take the Train

Cynthia Rylant - Harcourt
Format: Paperback

Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, are going for a train ride with their neighbors, Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke. They've planned the perfect afternoon trip. But when they get to the station, they're in for a big surprise: No pets are allowed on the train! It looks like the trip...
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All Aboard the Alaska Train

Brooke Hartman - Red Comet Press
Format: Hardcover

Toot toot! Come aboard the Alaska Train for a rollicking rhyming adventure with Alaska's favorite animals!Five shiny train cars roll down the railroad track, picking up passengers along the way - a porcupine, grizzly bear, caribou, and more. Soon the cars are packed, but now the train...
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