Trains is a nice little book for train obsessed Toddlers and Preschoolers. The artwork is very much like Richard Scarry's, in my opinion, which means that it's cheerful and attractive.
The text is simple -- but not so simple that the book can be used as a primer. The author makes observations such as “Trains go on tracks”, and “Engineers drive the locomotives that pull the cars along the tracks".
Besides reading the story, I think you could find a variety of things to talk about with very young children. There are the names of normal objects, like barns, ships, and cows, for example. And there are, of course, the train related items, like signals, freight, passengers, diesels, steam, tracks and more.
In addition, you could use the book to discuss concepts such as color and number -- how many sheep? -- as well as notions such as opposites: toy/real, city/country, stop/go.
A Good Library find for the train-obsessed.
Pam
Somewhere in the X-burbs
- Accelerated Reading level :none found
- Paperback: 24 pages
- Publisher: Puffin; 1st Unicorn Ed edition (January 1, 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 014054979X
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