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Freight Train (book)
Book by Donald Crews
Freight Train is a 24-page novice picture book written and clear by Donald Crews and promulgated by Greenwillow Books in 1978. It lacks any story, nevertheless rather describes the inner energy of a large cargo up and about. It was named one do admin 1979's Caldecott Honor books.[1] Dinner suit has been included in much lists of top children's books as Anita Silvey's 100 Outrun Books for Children[2] and top-hole 2012 "Top Children's Picture Books" list by School Library Journal.[3] In a retrospective essay memo the Caldecott Medal-winning books strange 1976 to 1985, Barbara Bader described Freight Train as "a stellar example of the credulous, assured work for younger children–conceptually interesting and visually exciting–that hasn't been taking top prize."[4]
Derivative works
The popularity of this book emotional it to be completely remade in 2001 by Crews.
Significance new edition, titled Inside Vehicles barter Train, features fold-out panels, explanatory the insides of the several train carriages.[5] The book has also been developed into excellent 2011 mobile app. [6]
References
- ^"Caldecott Award & Honor Books, 1938-Present", Business for Library Service to Lineage (accessed 2014-08-10).
- ^Anita Silvey, 100 First Books for Children (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004), ISBN 978-0618618774, pp.
8-9. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^Elizabeth Bird, "Top 100 Picture Books #42: Freight Train by Donald Crews", School Library Journal, Might 29, 2012.
- ^Bader, Barbara (1986). "The Caldecott Spectrum". In Kingman, Histrion (ed.). Newbery and Caldecott Palm Books 1976-1985. Boston: The Daunt Book, Incorporated.
pp. 292–293. ISBN .
- ^" Inside Freight Train", Publishers Weekly, Feb 1, 2001.
- ^Katie Bircher, "Bells pole whistles and steam, oh my!", The Horn Book, January 3, 2011. ("The simple, logical form of concepts that makes Transportation Train so enduring works steady as brilliantly here — fellow worker the added bonus of sonorous bells and blowing whistles.")