Oh No! Train Can't Go!

Usborne Farmyard Tales (Numbered) #20

by Heather Amery, Stephen Cartwright (Illustrator)

In this delightful new series of Farmyard Tales stories, Poppy and Sam discover the newly restored Apple Tree Station and its steam train. These short stories have been written, with the help of a language expert, for children who are just beginning to read. With encouragement from an adult, beginner readers will be able to achieve the pleasure and satisfaction of reading a whole book for themselves.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals

Paperback

First published December 31, 1990

About the author

Heather Amery was born and brought up in Bath, Somerset. Heather has written over a hundred books for children, including alphabet books, science and history books, craft books, classical fairy tales, a series for beginner readers called Farmyard Tales, Usborne Bible Tales, and Greek Myths.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

These books are great for younger children with shorter attention spans, and for early readers as well. Highly recommended!

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun little story about a farm mishap and how they got creative to solve the issue. Sweet and short, and my toddlers live the farmyard Tales spot the duck on each page. Keeps the 2 yr old engaged in book.

[Krisz · Rating 5 out of 5]

We love Woolly, and in this story she's as naughty as ever!

[Savio Sebastian · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have a lot of problems with this book. (1) How did the sheep get out of the farm? (2) Sheeps have a mind of their own to make a train stop instead of moving away when they hear it coming?

Most of the Farmyard Series books are logically kinda accurate but this seems too far fetched! Trains would plow through sheep generally coz they can't stop quickly enough anyways... and sheep would move at the sound of the train! The idea that Woolly wanted to get a ride on the train and goes on a suicide mission to do that seems absurd.

And so is this review! ;-) Why am I overanalyzing this?!!

My toddler loves it like she loves other books in the Farmyward series!

[Dee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Taking into account that this is a reader for French-speaking children learning to read, I suppose it was okay. However, even though I'm very interested in the language itself, the storyline was not entertaining enough to make this very enjoyable. The book is only 16 pages long and I was pretty happy when it was done. I really like the illustrations, though! Stephen Cartwright has very cute drawings.

[Cowgalutah · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son loves this book!

[Amalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Farmyard Tales series is wonderful for early readers.

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little Cherub has latched on to Farmyard Tales again.