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The Train to Timbuctoo (Little Golden Book) Hardcover – Picture Book, January 9, 2018
Margaret Wise Brown (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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From Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!
This beloved story from 1951, about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamazoo, has captured the imaginations of generations of children. Out of print for decades, it is back to delight little ones and their parents and grandparents again. "Clackety-clack—clackety-clack—pocketa-pocketa-pocketa"—down the track they go! Now a new generation of children will pore over the cheerful illustrations of bridges, tracks, and countryside, while listening to this rollicking tale.
- Reading age2 - 5 years
- Print length24 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.63 x 0.2 x 8 inches
- PublisherGolden Books
- Publication dateJanuary 9, 2018
- ISBN-100553533401
- ISBN-13978-0553533408
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About the Author
ART SEIDEN (1923-2004) illustrated over three hundred books, and was both author and illustrator of at least twenty-two children's books for every major publisher.
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- Publisher : Golden Books; Illustrated edition (January 9, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 24 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0553533401
- ISBN-13 : 978-0553533408
- Reading age : 2 - 5 years
- Item Weight : 4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.63 x 0.2 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #153,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #181 in Children's Trains Books (Books)
- #298 in Children's Travel Books (Books)
- #657 in Poetry for Early Learning
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About the author

Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died over 45 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
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"From
Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo
It's a long way down the track
And from Timbuctoo to Kalamazoo
It's just as far to go back
A long, long way,
A long long way,
a long way down the track.
From Timbuctoo
and back.
This story was simply "okay". Not something that will be a memorable story or a frequently requested favorite book.
Illustrations were cute.
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This story features lots of rhyming, sound-effects and very simple displays of opposites (specifically big and small). If you have a child who likes trains, likes making train-related sounds and/or could benefit from an easy to understand example of big vs. small, this is a great choice!
