On the Blue Comet
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780763658151 (0763658154)
Publish date: September 11th 2012
Publisher: Candlewick
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Well done, highly recommended.
Such a superb book! I didn't think I would like it but I was sucked in within the first few pages. By chapter 2, I was hooked! The story is about a young boy named Oscar who gets separated from his father during the Great Depression. His father builds model train tracks and Oscar discovers that the ...
A rich, historical time-travel novel set in the 1930's of Cairo, Illinois. I read this as a galley, and did not get to see all of the wonderful illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline, and none of them in color. I can only imagine how much this is going to add to the reading experience. Ibatoulline is a...