Features
Train and Locomotives

The Great Railroad race: The Diary of Libby West
Kristiana Gregory
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Scholastic USA, 1999, 0-590-10991-X
Train lovers may also like to look at the following features:

The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
William Durbin
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Scholastic, 1999, 0-439-04994

Gus and Grandpa ride the train
Claudia Mills
Pictures by Catherine Stock
Fiction (Series)
Ages 5 to 7
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-42813-1

The Train to Glasgow
Wilma Horsbrugh
Illustrated by Paul Cox
Picture Book/poetry
Ages 3 to 5
Clarion Books, 2004, 0-618-38143-0

Stop that Train!
Geraldine McCaughrean
Fiction
Ages 12 and up
HarperCollins, 2003, 0-06-050749-7

Full Steam Ahead
Faye Gibbons
Illustrated by Sherry Meidell
Picture Book
Ages 3 to 5
Boyds Mill Press, 2002, 1-56397-858-X

Niccolini's Song
Chuck Wilcoxen
Illustrated by Mark Buehner
Picture Book
Ages 4 and up
Penguin Putnum USA, 2004, 0-525-46805-6

Steam Locomotives: Whistling, Chugging, Smoking Iron Horses of the past
Text and photographs by Karl Zimmermann
Non-fiction
Ages 10 and up
Boyds Mill Press, 2004, 1-59078-165-1

Crossing
Philip Booth
Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
Picture Book/poetry
Ages 3 and up
Candlewick Press, 2001, 0-7636-1420-3

Jingle the Brass
Patricia Newman
Michael Chesworth
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 6
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, 0-374-33679-2

The Prairie Train
Antoine O Flatharta
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 10
Random House, 1999, 0-533-11334-8

Trains: A Pop-up railroad book
Robert Crowther
Pop-up Book
Ages 6 and up
Candlewick, 2006, 076363082-9

Railroad John and the Red Rock Run
Tony Crunk
Pictures by Michael Austin
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 8
Peachtree Publishers, 2006, 1-56145-363-3

A Subway for New York
David Weitzman
Non-Fiction
Ages 8 and up
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, 0-374-37284-5

The Little Engine that Could
Watty Piper
Illustrated by Laren Long
Picture Book
Ages 2 to 6
Penguin, 2005, 0-399-24467-0

Hear that Train whistle Blow: How the railroad changed the world
Milton Meltzer
Non-Fiction
Ages 12 and up
Random House, 2004, 0-375-81563-5

Trains
John Hudson Tiner
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 9 to 12
The Creative Company, 2004, 1-58341-260-3

Subway: The Story of Tunnels, Tubes, and Tracks
Larry Dane Brimner
Illustrated by Neil Waldman
Non-Fiction
Ages 9 to 12
Boyds Mills Press, 2004, 1-59078-176-7

Mr. Putter and Tabby Take the Train
Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by Arthur Howard
Fiction (Series)
Ages 6 to 9
Harcourt, 1998, 0-15-202389-5

M is for Caboose: Riding the Rails from A to Z
Traci N. Todd
Designed by Sara Gillingham
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 4 to 6
Chronicle Books, 2007, 0-8118-5643-7



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