All Aboard! The Airport Train (An Abrams Extend-a-Book)

by Nichole Mara, Andrew Kolb (Illustrator)

Overview

Hop on board to explore the airport in this accordion-style book with flaps to lift on every page

A Parents Magazine Best Children’s Books Selection!​

All aboard! This accordion-style book folds out car by car, taking readers on a tour of an airport train—inside and out. Readers are asked to help a girl bound for summer camp find her missing plane ticket, and as they search, they are introduced to all the passengers on the train. There are vacationing penguins, glamorous movie stars, traveling musicians, and other silly surprises sure to delight on every read. When readers flip the book over, they’ll discover a panoramic view of the airport—the control tower, runways, and parking lots—dotted with objects for readers to find and count. A fun, interactive ride from beginning to end!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419736780
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	08/06/2019
Series:	An Abrams Extend-a-Book
Pages:	10
Sales rank:	1,038,668
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Illustrator Andrew Kolb first garnered attention with his illustrated version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Since then, he has created illustrations for clients including chickaDEE Magazine, the Toronto Zoo, and Pixar. He is also the author of Edmund Unravels and the illustrator of All Aboard!: Let’s Ride a Train and All Aboard!: The Christmas Train. He lives in Ontario, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

2019-06-23
There's so much to see on the airport train.

One of the passengers on the airport train has lost her ticket! In this lift-the-flap concertina book, readers travel from car to car of the aforementioned train, searching for both the missing ticket and for other objects hidden within the pictures. Each illustration requires a different preschool skill, including recognizing shapes, counting, and matching. The images feature diverse humans and quirky creatures, not to mention skillfully drawn, child-friendly objects such as instruments and balls. The clean design separates the text from the illustrations, which are busy and teeming with life. Once they have completed the activities within the train cars, readers can flip to the backs of the pages to see what passengers are viewing out of the windows and to do more counting and identification. The pages of the book pull out into a full train, and it lacks any kind of narrative throughline, making it unwieldy for group read-alouds. It is, however, a wonderful option for one-on-one learning sessions and for children who are independent enough to manipulate the pages on their own—although it should be noted that the design, while clever, can be confusing and, at times, frustrating for the youngest readers.

A fun and useful educational tool for preschoolers, particularly beginning readers. (Board book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews