Train
Elisha Cooper
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
A night train, a freight train, a high-speed train. Racing across the country, from coast to coast. All aboard!Climb aboard a red-striped Commuter Train in the East. Switch to a blue Passenger Train rolling through midwestern farmland. Then hop on a Freight Train, soar over mountains on an Overnight Train, and finish on a High-Speed Train as it races to the West Coast.Trains are moving. Fast and loud, colorful and powerful. Experience their sights, sounds, smells--and the engineers and conductors who make them go--as they roll across the country.
Product Details
| Publisher | Orchard Books |
| Publish Date | September 24, 2013 |
| Pages | 40 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780545384957 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 11.8 X 0.4 inches | 1.2 pounds |
About the Author
Elisha Cooper is the award-winning author of Train, which received five starred reviews; Farm, which received starred reviews in Horn Book Magazine and Publishers Weekly; and Beach, which won the 2006 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Other picture books include A Good Night Walk, Magic Thinks Big, and Dance!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Elisha Cooper lives with his family in New York City. For more information, go to elishacooper.com.
Reviews
Praise for TRAIN* "A poetic, beautifully conceived book." --BOOKLIST, starred review* "The loose watercolor-and-pencil artwork hums with activity and energy." --KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review* "Cooper's signature sun-bleached watercolors beautifully convey human achievements and nature's grandeur through both detail and a range of scale." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewPraise for FARMBulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book (2010)* "It's as thorough and pleasing an introduction to a farm as one could ask of a picture book." --THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE, starred review* "The graceful text and serenely stunning illustrations create a portrait both reverent and realistic." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewPraise for BEACHSociety of Illustrators Gold Medal (2006)"Cooper's portrayal of a day at the shore is generous with such minutiae; his fondness for his subject is evident and infectious." --SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
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