Locomotive
Brian Floca,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Brian Floca,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416994152 (1416994157)
ASIN: 1416994157
Publish date: September 3rd 2013
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
First of all, Locomotive by Brian Floca has absolutely beautiful illustrations. [A/N: It was a Caldecott Medal Winner and a Sibert Honor Book so you know I'm not just whistling Dixie.] This could be a potentially dry subject (a 19th century family's cross country journey to a new home) but the illus...
Locomotive tells the story of the building of the first transcontinental rail line in the 1860s, and of the steam engines that traveled the line, as told from the point of view of a family journeying from Omaha to Sacramento. My brother and sister-in-law gave this to my boys, and my almost-four-year...