Calling All Train Lovers

Elisha Cooper has written a tribute to the modern train. We start out journey on a red strip Commuter train and move on to a bright blue Passenger train as it hurries between cities. In the city the reader encounters a slow moving orange Freight train as it hauls supplies across the Great Plains. Our cross continent journey continues on a green Overnight train as it switchbacks its way over the Rocky Mountains only to meet a white High-Speed train. The High-Speed train “flies”, “glides” and “races” towards the city on the coast. 

Cooper’s text in "Train" is wonderfully descriptive. We encounter trains that make “da dum da dum of a beating heart” sound, tunnels where train’s “chatter turns into a whisper” and at trips end the “last thunk” as the train stops.  If you have a young person in your life who dreams of being a conductor when they grow up, you might want to also try "Steam Train, Dream Train" by Sherri Duskey Rinker. 




--Robbin O., Headquarters