All Aboard the Moonlight Train

by Kristyn Crow, Annie Won (Illustrator)

Overview

Fans of The Polar Express and Steam Train, Dream Train will be eager to climb aboard this enchanting, rhyming bedtime story that whisks young readers along on a dream-like adventure through a magical world filled with majestic, colorful animals.

Can't sleep? Then hop aboard the Moonlight Train and get ready for a dreamy, nighttime adventure! A toucan will take your ticket, an elephant is your engineer, you can climb the giraffe's long neck for a look-out, and a lion will tuck you into your sleeping car with a bedtime story. Ready to join us? All aboard!

Children and parents will love the clickety-clack rhythm of this enchanting, rhyming bedtime tale that whisks little readers through a magical forest on the most unusual and wondrous train ever. Annie Won's luminous, captivating art creates a joyous world of beautiful animals that will delight the youngest reader. It's your ticket to a perfect bedtime read-aloud.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525645436
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	454,651
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

KRISTYN CROW is the author of the Zombelina picture book series, with art by Caldecott Honor illustrator Molly Idle. She loves to use rhythm, rhyme, and repetition to make reading snappy and fun. Her first book, Cool Daddy Rat, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and was named a 2008 Blue Ribbon Book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Other books include Hello, Hippo! Goodnight, Bird!, Skeleton Cat, and Bedtime at the Swamp. Kristyn enjoys visiting schools, where she teaches rhythm in verse with a variety of percussion instruments to help improve reading skills. Visit Kristyn online at KristynCrow.com and follow her on Twitter at @kristyncrow.

ANNIE WON received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, in New York City. She is the illustrator of the picture book In the Quiet, Noisy Woods and two titles for Little Golden Books: The Elves and the Shoemaker and Margaret Wise Brown's The Whispering Rabbit. Learn about her work at anniewon.com.

Editorial Reviews

2019-12-18
Not sleepy? Then grab your ticket to the ride of a lifetime.

Young railroad enthusiasts with a reluctance for bedtime will heartily embrace this gentle trip on the ultimate animal train line. A small, Asian-presenting child reaches from a locomotive-shaped bed to snatch a ticket from the air, which spirits them to a train where "wild things await," quite literally. Whether it's the toucan ticket taker, the elephant working the engines, or the warthog waiters in the dining car, there's something to enjoy around every corner. And after all the delights have been sampled, the train drops the child off, safe and sound, at home with a final "Good night, good night, Moonlight Train!" Won infuses her art with lighthearted, luminous energy. There is the titular moonlight, certainly, but also starlight, the light of hot coals, and cozy interior lamplight. Sharp-eyed spotters will enjoy finding the animals strewn about the child's bedroom that show up on the train and its line at various times. Rhyming text maintains a regular rhythm in keeping with a chugging nighttime train. Every four-line stanza, with the exception of the last, ends with the call "All aboard the Moonlight Train!"—and sleepytime readers will be hankering to obey.

Part zoo, part train, all bedtime. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews

"Not sleepy? Then grab your ticket to the ride of a lifetime. Young railroad enthusiasts with a reluctance for bedtime will heartily embrace this gentle trip on the ultimate animal train line. . . . Part zoo, part train, all bedtime."—Kirkus

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