Trains (Sticker Stories) [Paperback]

Edward Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 26, 1998 | Age Level: 2 and up | Series: Sticker Stories

With 75 full-color reusable stickers, inviting scenes to decorate, and appealing, high-interest subjects, it's no wonder kids are stuck on Sticker Stories! Climb aboard! These passenger and freight trains are ready to go-speeding down the tracks, running through the city, climbing up mountains, and chugging back into the station!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (October 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0448418266
• ISBN-13: 978-0448418261
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > Children's Books > Transportation > Trains
  • #41 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Sports & Activities > Sports > General
  • #98 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Transportation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for one time use only -- but still fun for a low price, February 23, 2002

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christinemm - The Thinking Mother (Houston Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trains (Sticker Stories) (Paperback)

Sticker Stories Trains

By Edward Miller
This paperback book tells a little story about trains (well, a loose story). There are 75 "reusable" stickers showing cartoon-like trains. There are all different trains, coaches, box cars, diesel engines, subways, steam engines, etc. The text is vague so the child can use their imagination and their own creativity to create their own trains and I think that is great. There are lots of different scenes that the children then paste the train cars onto the rails.

My complaint is that these stickers are not really re-usable. Even when we tried removing a sticker within minutes of putting it on the page it curled up onto itself, got all stuck, and had to be thrown away. Other times when we tried to re-stick it to the paper, it simply would not stick fully and peeled up by itself and made a mess. I really resent the marketing of these so-called reusable stickers (by this company and other publishers) when really they are not reusable. Also my 4 year-old son got very frustrated with them rolling up and getting ruined when he did not cause the problem! He wanted me to "fix it" but I simply could not.

Once the stickers are in place the book can be re-read and browsed as a completed book which is great.

Overall my children have played with this enough to have gotten good use of the 75 stickers for the low price... so I am granting it a 3 star rating. Other books with similar issues charge a much higher price and/or don't allow as much creativity as this book. This would make an excellent project for long car trips or air flights.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent activity book for the next long trip, May 25, 2006

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John Call (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trains (Sticker Stories) (Paperback)

We have enjoyed books illustrated by Edward Miller. His drawings are informative yet playful, and this sticker book has page after page of his scenery. The trains are provided by the imagination of your child as he builds it car by car from the stickers in the center of the book. The printing is excellent quality with multicolor smooth pages. This is a step above a coloring book in terms of page quality and "story".

Usually I am not a fan of sticker books. Typical sticker books have a specific spot on the page where one unique sticker must be placed. This sticker book is not so limiting. Each page has a scene and an engaging sentence or two. For example "All kinds of cars make up a freight train--boxcars, flatcars, tank cars, refrigerator cars. Load'em up at the loading dock!" is the sentence for a freight yard with three loading docks. Your train loving child will need very little encouragement to build several freight trains at each dock from the stickers. If the child doesn't read, the illustrations are excellent at conveying a story that isn't finished until a few stickers are placed on the page. After those stickers are placed the story is exciting enough that your little one may feel compelled to repeat it to you more than once.

Reusable stickers? As noted by others the back cover claims the stickers are reusable and the paper feels like it is slick enough to allow the stickers to be recycled--but if your child is like mine those finger prints on the adhesive portion will quickly limit the useful life of the sticker. For the price, you will be satisfied with the quiet time it provides--even if the stickers don't get reused.

On the next big trip in car or plane (or train), put away the DVD mind numbing drivel and let your child populate a world of his own within the covers of this little book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unusable stickers, September 13, 2007

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boringaschwarz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trains (Sticker Stories) (Paperback)

This book is an excellent concept but a heartbreaking failure. Your child may assemble trains of stickers by placing stickers of engines, coaches and freight cars on pages showing tracks and colorful interesting backgrounds. The stickers curl. They will not stay on the pages. Some scenes cross the binder leading to awkward placement of stickers across it. The book cover deceives. The stickers are bordered in white. My child was trilled to have this book, but after several hours, it was trash. This is a shameful production of a great idea.