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3rd out of 91 books
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Freight Train
by
Donald Crews
Chugga, chugga. Chugga, chugga. Whoo, whooooo!!
Hardcover, 26 pages
Published
September 20th 1996
by Greenwillow Books
(first published October 1st 1978)
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Genre: Children’s Picture Book: Concept
Summary: This is a Caldecott Honor book that features a multi-colored freight train. The train is composed of a variety type of box cars each one with its own vibrant color. As the train travels past tunnels, cities, and trestles, it illuminates with a trailing rainbow.
a) The illustrator/author Donald Crews did a great job creating a “bleeding” rainbow. This book is great for reinforcing colors, and in particular the effect of color with movement.
b) The rea...more
Summary: This is a Caldecott Honor book that features a multi-colored freight train. The train is composed of a variety type of box cars each one with its own vibrant color. As the train travels past tunnels, cities, and trestles, it illuminates with a trailing rainbow.
a) The illustrator/author Donald Crews did a great job creating a “bleeding” rainbow. This book is great for reinforcing colors, and in particular the effect of color with movement.
b) The rea...more
Freight Train by Donald Crews
1. Genre: Concept Picture Book
2. Summary: Brilliantly colored train cars move through a tunnel, by a city, and across a trestle until it moves off the page.
3. Critique:
a. Area for comment: The detailed drawings with the text not only teaches the colors, but also the names of each train car.
b. Comment: The details of the different colored train cars and the text that tells what each car is makes this a great book about trains, colors, and movement.
c. Example: E...more
1. Genre: Concept Picture Book
2. Summary: Brilliantly colored train cars move through a tunnel, by a city, and across a trestle until it moves off the page.
3. Critique:
a. Area for comment: The detailed drawings with the text not only teaches the colors, but also the names of each train car.
b. Comment: The details of the different colored train cars and the text that tells what each car is makes this a great book about trains, colors, and movement.
c. Example: E...more
This book, by Donald Crews, is very simple and straightforward in conveying the concept of colors as well as the different train cars and how trains travel. This book would be excellent for children who are learning their colors. It could be used as a read aloud and ask the children, "What color is this car?" and let them respond. It would also be good to use with children who are learning to read on their own because there is not much text at all and the words are fairly simple, although they m...more
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 students...more
"Freight Train," written and illustrated by Donald Crews, is a Caldecott Award winning concept book written to help toddlers learn their colors, and other basic words. It's ten and a half pages follow the journey of a freight train, with bright colors, and a fun-filled adventure. Basic colors, nouns, verbs, and adjectives are all brought to attention in this simple story. The pictures of the book may seem very general, but yet they show so much detail in it's actions. Crews did a phenomenal job...more
Oct 09, 2012
Erin Mccall
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Freight Train is a magnificent learning experience for toddlers just beginning to acquaint themselves with books and colors. The words are sparse, drawing the child’s eye instead to the beautifully and simply illustrated train that chugs along from page to page. The train is broken up into train cars, each a different color, the corresponding text matching the color of the train car. The train’s movement is illustrated through blurs and distortion in different settings, helping children to unde...more
"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...
The simplicity of the text is matched with the stri...more
The simplicity of the text is matched with the stri...more
Freight Train by Donald Crews is considered a concept book because it helps kids to understand that different parts are put together to make the whole freight train. Individually, page by page Crews introduces each separate car: "Red caboose at the back, Orange tank car next, Yellow hopper car, Green cattle car, Blue gondola car, Purple box car, a Black tender and a Black steam engine." The next page is a picture of each car connected on the tracks working together to get to where the train is g...more
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...more
When I first picked this book up, I immediately remembered it from when I was in elementary school. This is one of those great books that is a very simple read with basic words and sentences, that also reviews colors in the process. While many students likely know their colors, they may not be familiar with how they are spelled, so reading this book gives them the chance to connect the words with the colors. I also like how the train isn't just moving on a white background, it goes through a tun...more
The cover of this Caldecott Honor Book certainly grabs your attention. After reading through the book though, I was not impressed. I think this book would be good for children younger than kindergarten. The illustrations of the train are great, but it lacks background artwork, which I feel would make the book more complete. The concept is very simple, and that is why I would recommend it for very young children. The book says nothing about how a train actually works. In fact, it doesn’t even say...more
This book was very simple. It focused on train cars and colors, obviously geared towards grades pre-k through kindergarden. The only time I feel like I would want to use this in my own classroom is to teach a music lesson. The book has a definite beat that comes to the reader as they read the book aloud. While there is no plot, the book introduces a few different types of car trains, which some students may find interesting but I could never imagine that a students would be able to remember if I...more
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. The reade...more
This book is best when read by an older reader to an individual child. The reade...more
I recognize this was a classic book, but I didn't love it. It was a simple color picture book, a la Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, but I didn't find it that engaging. Little boys that like trains will likely enjoy this book a bit more than an older boy with limited train love.
This said, I think there are better books out there these days that teach and show the material from this book. It's worth grabbing at the local library, but I wouldn't buy it personally.
This said, I think there are better books out there these days that teach and show the material from this book. It's worth grabbing at the local library, but I wouldn't buy it personally.
Jul 12, 2012
Tiffany Jolly
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Freight Train
Fiction: picture story book. Colors, trains
Crews, Donald. Freight Train. Illus by Donald Crews. Green Willow Books, 1978, 32, primary.
In Freight Train, a colorful train is making its way through the city moving faster and faster. The lucid print is descriptive, which supports the bold illustrations done in watercolor and gives the reader an amusing way to learn their colors.
Activity: Using watercolors have students create their own trains followed by labeling each one with the nam...more
Fiction: picture story book. Colors, trains
Crews, Donald. Freight Train. Illus by Donald Crews. Green Willow Books, 1978, 32, primary.
In Freight Train, a colorful train is making its way through the city moving faster and faster. The lucid print is descriptive, which supports the bold illustrations done in watercolor and gives the reader an amusing way to learn their colors.
Activity: Using watercolors have students create their own trains followed by labeling each one with the nam...more
Crews, D. (1978). Freight Train. New York: Greenwillow Books.
Category: Concept book (graphic arts style)
Award: Caldecott Honor book
Very simple text and graphic illustrations identify railroad cars and engine and follow it on its trip through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles until, on the last page, it is gone leaving only smoke behind. This was my son's favorite book at age 2 - he loved all the vocabulary.
Themes: rialroads, trains, colors
Classroom uses: read-aloud, color identification, rai...more
Category: Concept book (graphic arts style)
Award: Caldecott Honor book
Very simple text and graphic illustrations identify railroad cars and engine and follow it on its trip through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles until, on the last page, it is gone leaving only smoke behind. This was my son's favorite book at age 2 - he loved all the vocabulary.
Themes: rialroads, trains, colors
Classroom uses: read-aloud, color identification, rai...more
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...more
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 colors to depict speed is effective....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 colors to depict speed is effective....more
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 of the ho...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 of the ho...more
I think having the concept of colors depicted through different freight train cars is an excellent idea for students to see. The labeling of the car so they are comfortable identifying the color, and adding more colors to visibly see the full rainbow is a great way to learn the color concept. The illustrations are brilliant to show the colors, especially once the train is moving through different environments and at different times of day. Although the content is intended for a young audience, I...more
Donald Crews' Freight Train is another wonderful story told so well through his illustrations. I believe this story could go right along with his Trucks book since the pictures follow right along and say what is being shown. The trains are each a different color, and Crews does a great job focusing in on what is being said and shown on one page. The illustrations continue on right where the left off on the following pages. This book would be a great one for beginning readers, as well as those wh...more
Sep 26, 2011
Courtney
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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...more
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 the colors--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 the colors--t...more
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 inte...more
Freight Train is a good book for children. It shows all the different parts of a freight train. The author shows the train going down the tracks through tunnels and by cities. The illustrations were very colorful and the train and its cars looked like an actual freight train. I believe that the tunnel and the city could have been drawn more in detail, however the book is about a freight train, so the author did a good job with those particular illustrations. The story was kind of dry.
Fright Train is presented in a simple colorful way that will appeal to children in Kindergarten and perhaps even younger children. It is a Caldecott Honor book that is very well designed to teach its readers the basic colors in a fun and memorable way. Using freight trains is a good idea because young children are often fascinated by trains. The book blends the colors and parts of the train in a way that is captivating and good for cognitive associations that build language identifiers.
I enjoyed this book. It describes the different parts of the train, what they carry and where the train goes. It The illustrations were simple but effective using bright colors that grab the readers attention and show movement well. The bold colors or the different train cars will also be helpful when teaching colors to chuldren because you can point at each car and say "what color is the caboose?" I would recommend this book for kindergartners especially boys they always love trains!
Mar 03, 2011
Tdavis
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Baby - Preschool
Shelves:
vocabulary,
baby-preschool
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.
And, the answer is: yes, I have read this book before today but now I've been trying to keep my lists up to date with titles I use for storytime so this was the centerpiece of my train storytime which also featured singing "Little Red caboose" as well. This is just such a perfect picture book for reading aloud to young kids because it only has a few words on each page and it has wonderfully simple illustrations. I could read it over and over again!
Freight Train by Donald Crews is a concept book focusing on learning colors. His illustrations teach this concept by introducing the different colors of the different cars on a train. The drawings are precise, accurate and largely black and white, which guides the eye to the pop of color that each train car holds. This is a great book for grabbing children's attention and giving them a different way to think about and remember different colors.
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