Board book · Fiction
Freight Train
Donald Crews
About the book
A train of colored cars moves across the page, through tunnels and past cities, faster and faster until it is gone.
Reading notes
Spare text and bold graphic design teach colors and motion.
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Recognition
- Caldecott Honor (1979)
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Book details
- Author
- Donald Crews
- First published
- 1978
- Suggested ages
- Ages 0–4 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Best read aloud
- Topics
- colors, vehicles
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780688117016 · HarperTrophy, September 18, 1992 · Paperback
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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