Review: Wrong Terms, Don't Know Why Train Magical, Decent Illustrations
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2012
First and foremost, if you are going to write a book about trains please get the jargon correct.  It took 3 minutes to confirm the below terms used in either the US or UK.The person who "drives" the train is either a locomotive engineer or driver.The person who asks people to board the train is called the conductor.The person who fixes a train is called a mechanic, fitter, or his specialty term like pipe fitter.I found the drawings to be bright and colorful but a bit flat.You don't find out the train is magical until after the mechanic can't fix the engine and then it isn't the train that is magical.  Because it is the people who are encouraging the train to go "chugga chugga choo choo", so maybe it was the people who were magical.Basically,  this could have been a cute story, but I found it the height of laziness not to even google the correct terms.  I also felt that if you are going to make a train magical then it should actually do something....you know....magical.I don't recommend this book.