Ending on a peaceful, satiated note, this explosive episode makes a first-rate entry in the annals of picture-book sneezes. Afterward, willing trunks and flippers reset the tumbled cars onto their tracks, and off the train chugs, leaving the bloated picnickers strewn about like beached whales. What to do? Invite everyone to a picnic! Rather than his usual polychrome woodcuts, Wormell creates soft-edged, colored-pencil drawings here for a “younger,” softer look, depicting a simply carved wooden train sturdily pulling three hilariously overloaded cars. Elephant’s trunk, prompting a monumental sneeze. Elephant cheerfully assures the worried conductor. “ ‘It’s just a matter of balance,’ ” Mrs.
Elephant forcibly wedge themselves into the train’s tiny cars for a shopping trip into town, on their return they’re carrying 600 sardines, 15 loaves of bread, pots of honey, and a mountain of fresh fruit. As if it’s not bad enough that blubbery Mrs.
Wormell ( Blue Rabbit and the Runaway Wheel, see above) seamlessly blends landscape and playscape in this tale of a wonderfully catastrophic train wreck. Mata renders the imaginary scenes in a childlike crayon that blends nicely with the warm visions of this black family’s middle-class home.īoth an excellent book for guided reading and a winning read-aloud. Repeated onomatopoeic phrases build anticipation: “Woo-woo,” “Chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga,” and “Clickety-clack.” These are framed around the pickup of each passenger, helping to control pacing while giving readers an opportunity for fun. Readers will also enjoy the vivid and playful illustrations that take them from Ty’s home and into the world he imagines. They will relate to Ty’s playfulness, sense of adventure, and energetic imagination. This My First I Can Read book will engage young beginning readers. Ty steers his train past farmland and a city and through a tunnel, picking up familiar and eager passengers along the way. He and his puppy inspect the box, draw some wheels onto it, and make a locomotive that rumbles and whistles down an imaginary track. After being turned down by his dad, mom, and big brother, Corey, Ty wanders downstairs to the family room, where he finds an empty cardboard box.
Ty, a little black boy, wants to play, but everyone in the house is too busy to take time for him. Ty loves adventure, but he is having a little trouble finding someone to join him.
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