Customer Reviews

Choo Choo Clickety-Clack!

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I borrowed this book from the library because of the big train on the front. My son is a huge train lover (he also loves tractors). The book has a different type of vehicle featured on each two-page spread and lots of detail in the pictures to talk about with your child. (My son loves to point out the tractor in the field in the background on the airplane page :) It was a little difficult to read aloud the first time and the wording was kind of unusual (it took me until half way through the book to clue in that it was more of a poetry style than a regular story style of writing) Once I figured out the rhythm of the writing, it was easy to read to my son. I almost didn't read it to him because the wording seemed so wierd, but when I read it to him HE LOVED IT. He likes music and rhythms anyway and having the rhythm combined with vehicles delighted him. He keeps asking for it every day. I've renewed it once from the library and I think I'll just need to buy a copy of our own (which I only do for my son's favorite books because money is tight).

Of course, every boy would not be complete without a healthy interest in trains, planes and every moving things. Our son loves this book and says "Choo Choo" nearly every night, asking us to read this book.

This book is positively poetic. Each page focuses on a different vehicle with bright, bold illustrations and rhythmic phrases with repeated patterns that kids will find contageous. My son began "reading" the book to me after a few days of repeated reading and applying the first line of each phrase to his everyday life! ("Crayons are great for draw, draw, drawing!")

My son loves Dig Dig Digging and he loves trains, this was right up his alley. We have read it almost every night for weeks.

I bought this book for my daughter at Christmas and it quickly became her favorite book. At 3 years old, she loves trains and anything vehicle for that matter, so this book is perfect for her. We also have "Dig Dig Digging" by the same author and they are very fun to read and the illustrations are beautiful and facilitate learning.

This book is wonderful for preschoolers, it is colorful and I liked the rhymes. It is a good book to start to teach children how to read. The different modes of transportation and how they should sound was wonderful. I would buy this book just for the sheer fun of the words. Good good illustrations.

Thank you Margaret Mayo for creating such a wonderful book! My toddlers (first my boy, then my girl) loved it. They love the illustrations and catchy words. I would laugh so hard when my 2 year old could recite many pages word for word by himself. Highly recommended for any transportation lover!

So many of these reviews talk about boys liking this book -- well, my two-year-old daughter can't get enough of it. We read it constantly. The collage-style artwork is straightforward enough to understand but detailed enough to hold her interest (she likes to find the various cats and dogs and kids that are on nearly every page). Note that the title emphasizes trains but trains are only on one page -- each page has a different vehicle. So whether you have a boy or a girl, if they have an interest in buses or trains or cars or airplanes or bikes or motorcycles or boats, or, like my girl, ALL of the above, give this book a try!

This is a great book for active little boys (I guess girls too but we have a son). My son is 2 and has loved this book since we originally purchased it at age 1. We literally read it to him every single night before bed. The pictures are vivid and colorful and the story quite animated. It reads like a poem with so much flexibility in sound character while making the vehicle sounds. We utilize the story for educational purposes also. Not only will kids learn about various modes of transportations they will learn the medium in which they travel, how one differs from another, rationale for usage (getting to work vs. vacation) etc. You can really use the story to develop higher order thinking in your child. Its an excellent story. Highly recommended.

I first borrowed this book from the library and loved it so much that I had to buy a copy for my son's 3rd birthday. The art is amazing and the pictures are all very colorful. My son loves every form of transportation and it is all covered in this one book! He has memorized some of the pages and recites them with me as I read. I would recommend this book for any child, even as young as age 2 yrs. I also ended up buying two other picture books by the same artist and illustrator for my son's birthday.