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Casey Jones
Listen to the story of the railroad's greatest hero!
"Now all of this happened"
"a hundred years ago"
"but it's a story that everyone"
"ought to know"
"'cause the railroad back then"
"was the mightiest thing"
"and the loco engineer"
"was the Iron Horse King! "
With action-packed, intricately detailed pictures and text that whistles off the page, here is the tale of the locomotive engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones, who died at his post with one hand on the whistle and the other on the air-brake lever -- a hero to the end.
Drummond paints a lively picture of railroading in its heyday as he tells the story of an American legend.
"Now all of this happened"
"a hundred years ago"
"but it's a story that everyone"
"ought to know"
"'cause the railroad back then"
"was the mightiest thing"
"and the loco engineer"
"was the Iron Horse King! "
With action-packed, intricately detailed pictures and text that whistles off the page, here is the tale of the locomotive engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones, who died at his post with one hand on the whistle and the other on the air-brake lever -- a hero to the end.
Drummond paints a lively picture of railroading in its heyday as he tells the story of an American legend.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
32 pages, Hardcover
First published March 23, 2001
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September 1, 2022
John Luther Jones, or Casey Jones, was a locomotive engineer that never abandoned his engine.
Supplemental reading material used for our 2nd grade LA unit on Tall Tales.
Supplemental reading material used for our 2nd grade LA unit on Tall Tales.
September 11, 2014
This is a great book about a historical figure. My son was fascinated. He wanted more explanation about what happened to Casey Jones and how and why (he's 4!). One nice surprise was that in giving a bit of history about the railroad system in the USA he did make mention of the "railroading" of the native peoples and what a terrible thing that was.
December 3, 2010
Based on a true story about a famous railroad engineer, Casey Jones, who gave his life to save all the passengers on his train. It is in rhyme and although it is quite wordy, it is easy to read and my son asked me to read it to him over and over again (very rare I might add). Lots of interesting facts and pof course boys love trains! I was surprised how much Matthew enjoyed the information that was possibly beyond him. Maybe it wasn't beyond him after all.
January 15, 2013
True story of Casey Jones--somewhere there has got to be a 5-star version of this story. . .
July 28, 2014
Very nice little picture book that was on my shelf. Going to donate it to the library. I didn't know the story of sacrifice.
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