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48th out of 91 books
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I'm Fast!
Can a train pullin’ half a mile of heavy-duty freight cars make it to Chicago ahead of a speedy little race car?
Through the desert . . .
Through the mountains . . .
Through a blizzard . . .
Vvvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrum!
Chooka Chooka Chooka Chooka
The race is on!
Through the desert . . .
Through the mountains . . .
Through a blizzard . . .
Vvvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrum!
Chooka Chooka Chooka Chooka
The race is on!
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
January 3rd 2012
by Balzer + Bray
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Things get heated up in quickly the book, I'm Fast!, whenever a speedy little car and a train decide to race one another to Chicago. Each page shows a different car that train has to pull. The train even transports pizza and ice-cream bars, which is always a favorite food with young readers. The train is competitive as he is racing to beat the little car zipping through all the turns. The train ends up winning and instead of bragging about his accomplishment, he offers the car a ride on his boxc...more
First Kate & Jim McMullan brought us I Stink!, followed by I'm Dirty!, I'm Bad!, and I'm Mighty! Now they've brought us the story of a train who's really, really fast. And it's pretty cool.
Engine decides to race Little Red Car to Chicago when he's challenged, but first he has to load his freight. He's got a gondola car full of bricks, a hopper full of gravel, a flat car of lumber, a coil car with steel, a freezer car loaded with ice cream bars, and more. There's even a car loaded with cars!
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Engine decides to race Little Red Car to Chicago when he's challenged, but first he has to load his freight. He's got a gondola car full of bricks, a hopper full of gravel, a flat car of lumber, a coil car with steel, a freezer car loaded with ice cream bars, and more. There's even a car loaded with cars!
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I'm Fast! by Kate McMullan, illustrated by Jim McMullan is the tale of a race from Sacremento to Chicago between a red car, and a train pulling freight.
After agreeing to a race, the train engine hooks up to freight cars including a flatcar, gondola, coil car, tank car, hopper, freezer car, boxcar, stack-car, and auto-rack. They cross a mountain, encounter snow, travel through the night, scatter cows, cross a bridge, and pull into Chicago with the train there first!
The text uses a large, bold fon...more
After agreeing to a race, the train engine hooks up to freight cars including a flatcar, gondola, coil car, tank car, hopper, freezer car, boxcar, stack-car, and auto-rack. They cross a mountain, encounter snow, travel through the night, scatter cows, cross a bridge, and pull into Chicago with the train there first!
The text uses a large, bold fon...more
This book is about a train and a car. The two decide to race to Chicago. The train loads all of his different cars and is ready to go. The train gets to take shortcuts through mountains while the car has to go over. The train makes it through snow just fine, but the car has a tougher time. The train talks about all of his different cars. He has stack cars, freezer cars, gondolas, and many more. The train ends up winning the race to Chicago. The train gives the car a ride back instead of racing a...more
A little red car challenges a freight train to race to Chicago. The friendly, sportsmanlike freight train accepts, and chants through the journey, from loading the cars to arriving in the freight yard-- and offering the car a ride home.
A frolicking, fun run through a picture book, with rhyming, rhythmical text that makes it one of the best in this series.
Some things rang untrue (truckers riding *in* their trucks on the train? pizzas in a box car, not a fridge car?) and one or two were confusing...more
A frolicking, fun run through a picture book, with rhyming, rhythmical text that makes it one of the best in this series.
Some things rang untrue (truckers riding *in* their trucks on the train? pizzas in a box car, not a fridge car?) and one or two were confusing...more
This is a cute story of a car and freight train who race each other to Chicago. It explains different situations that each one goes through that delays their journey but can also be advantages to one or the other. When the winner emerges, a challenge is issued for the trip back. They work together going back! This is just a fun book for younger children with lots of fun words, not in sentences, of noises that trains and cars may make. I would use this just as a fun read and to teach cooperation....more
I wasn't blown away by this one, but I have to take the kids' opinions into view--and they LOVED it. Even the two little guys with Autism who don't usually care about storytime were practically in my lap (I guess wheels really are part of the Y chromosome...oy) and all of the kids wanted to join in making noises, counting the train cars, etc. When I said, "The End!" a first-grader said, "I LOVE that book!" So, there you have it. Rave reviews from the tiny humans is worth a whole star upgrade in...more
I didn't Love it but my son who is 4 absolutely does. He has asked to read it over and over even sharing it with Nana.
A cute little train engine and fast red car decide to race to Chicago. It does have all kinds of fun vocabulary and the train is even hauling ice cream and pizza. Which gives the littles plenty to think about. The train ends up winning but instead of being a show off he gives Little red a ride back.
A cute little train engine and fast red car decide to race to Chicago. It does have all kinds of fun vocabulary and the train is even hauling ice cream and pizza. Which gives the littles plenty to think about. The train ends up winning but instead of being a show off he gives Little red a ride back.
Another library book my son adores. I'm not super fond of the story (nothing wrong with it, not offensive or anything) simply because it doesn't flow as well as most of the other storybooks we read together. It uses lots of onomatopoeia. The illustrations are very cute and the red car looks a lot like Lightning Mcqueen, so he tends to choose this as one of his bedtime books over most of the other ones on the shelf.
I liked it. I LOVE the cover.
I can even see reading it to some PreK or Kinders. As we all know they are fascinated by trains and cars.
Plus the kiddos would enjoy helping with the sound effects.
Could this be a "flannel" story? I follow Flannel Friday on blogs and Pinterest because I think the idea is so fun. I just don't ever DO them. But I can totally see the value in practicing the retelling skills.
I can even see reading it to some PreK or Kinders. As we all know they are fascinated by trains and cars.
Plus the kiddos would enjoy helping with the sound effects.
Could this be a "flannel" story? I follow Flannel Friday on blogs and Pinterest because I think the idea is so fun. I just don't ever DO them. But I can totally see the value in practicing the retelling skills.
Fun for preschool and K. Could also be used for onomatopoeia and other figurative language. I can't imagine that that Kindergarten train lover, there is at least one every year, wouldn't enjoy this.
Kids liked this the best of all I read today. I think it was because they recently did writing activities on Shark vs. Train and they made the competition connection immediately. I liked it better each time I read it.
Kids liked this the best of all I read today. I think it was because they recently did writing activities on Shark vs. Train and they made the competition connection immediately. I liked it better each time I read it.
All about trains, which makes it the perfect fodder for a 2-year-old. This train has some swagger while racing a hot rod across the country. Naturally, the train wins. What! What! Not as awesome as I'm Dirty (not enough growling sounds), but definitely the same swagger. The 2-year-old wanted to read it again, even though she was already asleep.
A car and a train race to Chicago. The whole book is about the train, and of course the train wins, but it is a great book to share with kids to introduce them to the names of different types of train cars. The poor car is shown in some of the pictures in backed up traffic or stopped at a train crossing.
An animated story expressing lots of auto sounds. Great illustrations for younger preschool and toddlers who enjoys cars, trains and anything on wheels. Of course the car and auto fans were the most responsive and happy to see the great illustrations when read to during storytime. Good book.
The race is on to Chicago between Red the car and Blue the freight train. Lots of info about trains, fast paced and boys and fans of Thomas the tank engine will love it. I especially like the illustration of the train going through the tunnel in the mountain.
I read/skimmed the preview of this, I think it is just some of the pages. I actually didn't like it as much as the others, but will probably buy it because it is about trains. You can never have enough picture books about trains in Ogden Utah, just saying.
Good for 3-5 year old, this a slightly more sophisticated "Freight Train", with a race between a car and a modern freight train adding plot to the book. Pair it with Hot Rod Hamster by Cynthia Lord for a high speed race themed storytime.
I loved "I Stink!" but I just couldn't the rhythm with this one. would still be great for a kid who love's trains, though. (My nephews would probably refuse to believe the fancy red car lost the race.)
If your kid likes cars this would be a great book for them. It talks about a lot of sound you would hear when listening to things that are fast. This book would be great for beginner readers and kids ages 2-5
My boys love books with lots of sound effects and this one doesn't disappoint. The red car reminded them of Lightning McQueen and they loved the fast pace of the story. It is a great read aloud.
Great for train fanatics, but it strains my belief a little that a car and train could keep up with each other like that. The inanimate objects have a fun personality though.
The concept of a train and a car racing from Sacramento to Chicago is fun. The illustrations were fun, too. But the text was hard to read, and didn't have any rhythem or flow.
This was a cute book of playful competition and overall being a good sport. I liked that even though their was a winner both sides were friendly in the end.
Not the best book in the "I'm" book series but a freight train and race car together in ONE book?! Some little ones are about to have their MIND BLOWN. :)
Pretty good. A race car and a train race across the country. Shows the 2 in various situations and terrains.
Consider this a spoiler....the train wins and offers to give the race car a ride home. Emerson enjoyed.
Consider this a spoiler....the train wins and offers to give the race car a ride home. Emerson enjoyed.
Kids will enjoy the many silly sounds and the Cars-like illustrations, but there's not much story here for the adults reading it aloud.
Humorous expressions and visual action abound as blue freight train and red sports car compete to see who will be first in a race from Sacramento to Chicago. Rev your engines and get ready to make some noise on the journey.
Reviewer 15
Reviewer 15
Much like all of the other books but if you have someone who loves vehicles, this one is yours!
It's not as good as I Stink, but none of the sequels have been that good. Still, we liked this one.
Who will win the race to Chicago? Shiny red sports car or chugga chugga train?
OH! You know!
OH! You know!
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