Kit's Railway Adventure (American Girl) [Hardcover]

Harriet Brown (Author), Jodi Evert (Editor), Walter Rane (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: American Girl (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584855754
• ISBN-13: 978-1584855750
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #535,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Harriet Brown is an eclectic and curiosity-driven writer whose work appears in the New York Times Magazine, O, Health, Glamour, Vogue, and many other publications, on subjects ranging from fat acceptance to forgiveness. A frequent contributor to the Tuesday New York Times science section, she specializes in writing about issues that affect the lives of women and children. Her latest book, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia, recounts her family's efforts to help their oldest daughter recover from anorexia nervosa. Brown is the editor of two anthologies (Feed Me! and Mr. Wrong), and several other nonfiction books, including The Good-Bye Window: A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center. Her radio essays can be heard on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "To the Best of Our Knowledge." She co-chairs Maudsley Parents, a website of resources for families struggling with eating disorders (www.maudsleyparents.org), and is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. Brown is an assistant professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York, where she created Project BodyTalk, an audio project that collects commentaries about people's relationship to food, eating and their bodies (www.projectbodytalk.com). She lives in central New York with her family.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A unique, nicely designed American Girls book., March 15, 2005

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Rebecca Herman (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kit's Railway Adventure (American Girl) (Hardcover)

It's the summer of 1934, and eleven-year-old Kit Kittredge has won an essay contest about the best part of the New Deal. Her prize is a trip to anywhere in the United States, so she decides to visit her brother Charlie, who is working for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Glacier National Park in Montana. Along the way, she will get a chance to visit the Chicago World's Fair. Kit travels by train from her home in Cincinnati, to Chicago, and then to Montana. She meets many different people along the way, including a girl from a small town visiting the fair, two young sisters forced to become hobos, a young girl from a Western ranch, and a young Native American girl living near Glacier National Park.

This was a very interesting and unique book from the American Girls Collection. It is made to look like a scrapbook kept by Kit, and features brief diary entries, drawings and photos, and removable objects. It's a great book for American Girls fans, and it teaches a bit about the Great Depression and how it changed life for many different people. And the design of the book is beautiful. I highly recommend it.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay Book, October 18, 2006

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Michelle Nixon (Lilburn, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kit's Railway Adventure (American Girl) (Hardcover)

This book was kind of interesting with the pullouts and such, but the text is boring. I reccomend this for any girl who owns a Kit doll, because they would know her background, but if you are just buying this book just because, you probably won't get it.