Now toddlers can help spot the different colored cars of Crews's freight train in this sturdy board book edition of the Caldecott Honor Book. (Baby...
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Feb 20, 2011
Patrick
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This book would be a great book to use for pre K-first or second grade. For younger kids it is an excellent tool to use to teach colors to the children. A teacher could read the book, and ask the children to name the colors of the different parts of the train. After reading the book the children could then paint pieces to their own freight train. For Kindergarten to First grade this book could be used to introduce the parts of a train. Before reading the book the teacher could ask the studen
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Jan 21, 2012
Samantha
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"Freight Train" begins by introducing each part of a train through different color variations (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, and Black). Once all the pieces have been introduced, the reader takes a journey through several locations where the train is passing through. Each page contains no more than five words, making it a great source for beginners. The conclusion leaves the mind to wonder and imagine where the train has gone next...
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Jan 30, 2012
Brad
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Freight Train is a Caldecott Honor Book, presented with a landscape layout. The landscape layout works perfectly for the book, because the story is literally about a freight train, and the wide pages are better suited for a long train to run from page to page. The typeface is constant throughout the book, with the exception of color. Within the story, the reader learns about the different cars that make up the freight train, and every color has a unique color. The color of the font correlates to
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Dec 07, 2007
Carter
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I enjoyed this book for it's drawings and the story, BUT can someone please help me understand what makes this book worthy of a Caldecott Honor?
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Dec 28, 2010
Jamie
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This Caldecott honor award book simultaneously features colors and trains. Many young children love trains, so this book provides an excellent method of teaching about colors. The different parts of a train are depicted and labeled, each in a different color so that children can easily distinguish the differences. After the parts of the train are introduced, the train travels in many different kinds of environments.
This book is best when read by an older reader to an individual child. More...
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Oct 10, 2011
Allyson
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This is a quick little book about trains that won a caldecott honor. Each part of the train is represented by a different color and shown in order from the back of the train to the front. The book also explains what a train does and where it goes. This could be a great book for the youngest primary students to learn about trains and also to distinguish differnt colors. I believe that the illustrations are perfect for the book because as you read, it's as if the train is actually moving along the
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Jan 07, 2011
David
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Freight Train (Caldecott Collection) by Donald Crews
Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. (Goodreads Summary)
Freight Train by Donald Crews is a simple Caldecott Honor book about colors, numbers and trains. Different train cars are labeled and are different colors.
Freight Train is appropriate for beginning readers with its repitition and positional words. The use of smeared color More...
Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. (Goodreads Summary)
Freight Train by Donald Crews is a simple Caldecott Honor book about colors, numbers and trains. Different train cars are labeled and are different colors.
Freight Train is appropriate for beginning readers with its repitition and positional words. The use of smeared color More...
Feb 03, 2009
Krysten
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Summary: A freight train is made up of many different colored cars that are used for different purposes. They move across the countryside and through mountains and cities, going, going, gone.
Evaluation: What a cool boy to teach colors. I think kids would like to read this book since it is teaching while also talking about something they might be interested in—trains. I like how he colors smear when the train is moving fast and that you can see the train when it is in the tunnel because More...
Evaluation: What a cool boy to teach colors. I think kids would like to read this book since it is teaching while also talking about something they might be interested in—trains. I like how he colors smear when the train is moving fast and that you can see the train when it is in the tunnel because More...
Sep 26, 2011
This book describes many parts of trains, and all things that trains travel over and on. This is a great book especially for boys, and can be tied well into a unit about transportation modes. There are several words that would need to be explained, just because they are a little advanced. This is a book that could be used all the way up to 2nd grade. This is an excellent book for children to learn about parts of train, and also more about a mode of transportation, that they probably do not know
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Aug 03, 2011
Heidi
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Well, the colors are vibrant in the book. And it's a good way to teach the scale (whatever it's called). Very simple. Could be used with beginning readers. Especially for the car/train lovers out there.
3/24/11 This was wonderful! I wanted to have a book focusing on colors. So I thought how to do this and came up with a brilliant (so say I) idea! I cut rectangles out of construction paper using colors represented in the book. I taped them up around the room. Then I cut out wheels in t More...
3/24/11 This was wonderful! I wanted to have a book focusing on colors. So I thought how to do this and came up with a brilliant (so say I) idea! I cut rectangles out of construction paper using colors represented in the book. I taped them up around the room. Then I cut out wheels in t More...
Jan 18, 2011
Deanna
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Upon reading this book, I immediately thought about the pre-k boys I work with because they love trains. I loved the fact that Donald Crews used trains in this book while also teaching about colors and different things that trains travel on and the way in which they travel. I would definitely recommend this book to any student that may be having trouble identifying colors or learning how to spell color words, especially students who are intrigued by trains as this book would only peak their int
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Mar 03, 2011
Tdavis
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For the little conductor near you! This book builds upon a child’s vocabulary by introducing words like gondola and trestles. The illustrations are spare and clear using bright colors, which are associated the words (i.e. “Red caboose at the back” appears in red type). Great for sequencing too!
Early Literacy Skills:
Narrative Skills
Print Awareness
Print Motivation
Vocabulary
Also, in board book format.
Early Literacy Skills:
Narrative Skills
Print Awareness
Print Motivation
Vocabulary
Also, in board book format.
Nov 06, 2011
Marian
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10 years later and I can still recite this book by heart. With its rhythm and imagery, it read almost like a lullaby for my train-loving son. He held the book and turned the pages while I sat at the end of his bed and said the words - until he could say them all by heart, as well. The clean, almost color-block style illustrations help reinforce the simple phrases. Children learn about train cars and the rainbow of colors all at the same time.
May 21, 2009
Shanna
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This is a simple presentation of the different cars on a freight train, with rhythmic text describing each car. It's a better board book than picture book, because for toddlers the bright colors and simple lines are very pleasing, but it might not hold the interest of older readers. This is good for the transition from looking at pictures to understanding stories, especially if the young reader can have exposure to a real train.
Dec 08, 2008
Heather
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We've owned this book for years. We have boys, we must own train books. This one is very simple with clear, bright pictures. The text is simple as well "red caboose at the end, orange blah blah blah' and so forth. We get to watch the train go through tunnels, over a trestle, speed up and disappear.
All my sons have really loved this. It's great for teaching color and movement.
A lovely book for the little ones.
All my sons have really loved this. It's great for teaching color and movement.
A lovely book for the little ones.
Jan 17, 2012
Kelly
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I used this book as a read aloud to third graders to teach Main Idea/Details. Amazing! The text never said the "train travels fast!" But the illustrations demonstrated the speed of the train very well. Being such a simple book, students caught on to MI/D quite easily. They webbed and then made the transfer to social studies text! I LOVED IT for that reason!
Feb 05, 2012
Sarah
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Simple concept beautifully realized, we learn the names of different cars on a freight train and each is a different color of the rainbow. When the train moves, the colors blur together to create a sense of the train's speed. We watch it travel through tunnels, into cities, along trestles. Its graphic style appeals to preschool and up.
Mar 21, 2010
Heidi
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Freight Train is a simple book about trains. Although a simple book, it teaches its young readers colors, train vocabulary and numbers. It teaches colors by making each train car a different color and the text is also that color too. When reading the short story, the child can count the number of train cars. And of course, any story about trains will have new train vocabulary. Because the book is very short, it will make a young reader feel very accomplished after taking a few minutes to re
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Mar 08, 2011
Asha
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This is a short book and would be great for a preschooler because it would keep their attention for just long enough. It gives examples of different names of the types of cars on the trains and even introducing colors. It is a quick story and about a train that goes through cities and tunnels and then in a flash its gone!
Sep 20, 2009
Carissa
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3.) Freight Train By Donald Crews
Crews, D (1993). Freight Train. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books.
Illustrated By: Donald Crews
Summary: this book will help teach children color because each page is dedicated to a different color. Toddlers will follow the train as it makes a journey through the book.
Crews, D (1993). Freight Train. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books.
Illustrated By: Donald Crews
Summary: this book will help teach children color because each page is dedicated to a different color. Toddlers will follow the train as it makes a journey through the book.
Aug 09, 2009
Jenny
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Young train fans will want to follow these pages down the track, from the “red caboose at the back” to the “orange tank car next,” all the way up to the “black steam engine” that pulls the train from station to station.
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Jun 05, 2009
Ashley
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This classic is so very timeless. I was amazed when I checked in the front cover to see that it was first published in 1979. I love the illustrations. And I'm reminded every time I read it of how my littlest brother used to have it memorized and would say "Cwossing twessohs" (crossing trestles).
Feb 18, 2011
Robert
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I was skeptical when I picked this up that I would be impressed given the Caldecott Honor it received. Indeed, it is worthy.
A simple book, yet the illustrations are wonderful. A good book for Fritz. The colors of the train are clear, but it is the motion of the train that dazzled me.
A simple book, yet the illustrations are wonderful. A good book for Fritz. The colors of the train are clear, but it is the motion of the train that dazzled me.
Dec 09, 2011
Jan
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A simple picture book of colors. The red caboose, orange tank car, and all the other cars travel through tunnels and over trestles, in the night and in the day. A Caldecott Honor Book in bold blocks of primary colors. A nice book for daycares and preschools.
Nov 07, 2011
babyhippoface
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Colorful train cars chug down the track in this simple picture books for kids. Older students looking for books about trains will want something more substantial, but the bright blocks of color and sparse text make this perfect for preschoolers.
Feb 24, 2011
P.
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Crews'action packed illustrations provide the young reader with a sense of being in the scene as the train rolls by. He provides atmosphere, sounds, in this close up look at rail transportation. Add this book to your transportation unit for K-1
Sep 01, 2011
Kathleen
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This was a book we checked out from the library. My daughter has recently had this fascination with trains. She cannot get enough of this book. And from the visible wear and tear of this copy, it has clearly been a favorite to other kids.
Jan 13, 2012
Gala
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This book would help pre k learn colors and new words. This is a picture book that children can read without words. A discussion about where the train could go and where other automobiles could go would make good conversations.
Apr 01, 2011
Jody
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This was one of Kaleb's favorite books when he was little. Carter, Emma, and I just rediscovered it and read it everyday. It is a simple book that helps little ones with their colors while following a train on its journey.
Mar 16, 2010
Kristin
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This book is good for beginning readers because it has pictures with the descriptive words to go along. The pages are limited to about three words per page, which is helpful because it will not overwhelm the reader.
