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Ages 4-6
Freight Train
by Donald Crews
This Caldecott Honor Book is full of color and action. Donald Crew's freight train moves slowly at first. Children can count the cars, identify the colors, and determine the function of the cars. But then, the train picks up speed chugging across the pages!
This Train
by Paul Collicutt
This Train is a rhythmic, simple textbook with vivid illustrations. It introduces young children to trains and compares and contrasts their uses and attributes.
Trains
by Gail Gibbons
Trains examines different kinds of trains, past and present, describing their features and functions. It is a picture book with lots of detail and information for the young train enthusiast.
Trains
by Anne Rockwell
Trains by Anne Rockwell is a simple picture book that describes many types of trains to the youngest train lover. Trains of all different types are introduced.
Ages 4-8
Big Book of Trains
by Christine Heap
The Big Book of Trains is literally a huge book, with a photo-essay style and close-up photography in full color. It features more than 50 of the world's most amazing trains including the heaviest, longest, fastest, and many more.
Clickety Clack
by Robert Spence, Any Spence and Margaret Spengler
A train gets noisier and more crowded as quacking ducks, dancing acrobats, talking yaks and packs of elephants create lots of noise on the train. But, the engineer is very patient...until two naughty mice climb aboard.
Draw With Shapes: Trains, Planes, Trucks & More
Draw With Shapes features easy, step-by-step directions on how to draw various forms of transportation. Children place shapes together to create their own drawings.
Gus and Grandpa Ride the Train
by Claudia Mills & Catherine Stock (Illustrator)
Gus and Grandpa share their love of trains in this warm and sensitive book. Grandpa lives by a railroad track and Gus loves to help listen for the sound of the locomotives. A lesson about forgetting and remembering is addressed in the book.
Ages 9-12
Chessie: The Railroad Kitten
by Thomas W. Dixon Jr.
Peeking out from beneath her Pullman blanket, Chessie endeared herself, and the railroad she represented, to millions of people around the world for more than half a century. Chessie is a warm story with railroad history intertwined.
Look Inside Cross-Sections: Trains
by Michael Johnstone, Richard Chasemore
How do steam locomotives work? How do trains move? How do they stop? Learn what goes on inside trains in this very colorful and detailed depiction of various trains.
See and Explore Library: Trains and Railroads
by Sydney Herbert Wood
Young readers learn what goes on inside trains and discover what makes them run by seeing each locomotive from above, across, and right through into the core.
Train (Eyewitness Books)
by John Coiley, Mike Dunning (Photographer)
Train traces the development of railways from the first trains to the electromagnetic, driverless trains of today. It also describes how trains are built and how they are operated. Full color and attention to detail make this book enjoyable as well as educational.
Ages 12-18
American Railroads
by John Stover
This book provides a fascinating account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States.
Modern Diesel Locomotives
by Hans Halberstadt
Modern Diesel Locomotives is a full color photography book depicting the modern diesel locomotives. The book goes into great detail, including everything from the anatomy of a locomotive to the view from the cab.
Railroads Across America: A Celebration of 150 Years of Railroading
by Mike Del Vecchio
Arranged into eight geographic regions, this comprehensive history presents the grand saga of railroading in the U.S. and Canada. It starts from the earliest days of steam locomotives and continues through to the modern-day passenger and freight trains.
The Story of America's Railroads
by Ray Spangenburg, Diane Moser
The Story of America's Railroads traces the history of railroads in America focusing on the technology, people, and life on the railroads.
The Transcontinental Railroad in American History
by R. Conrad Stein
This book takes a look back into the history and events leading up to the massive engineering project, the transcontinental railroad.
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