I Love Trains
A little boy in a striped engineer cap and overalls extols the many  virtues of trains in this boldly colored celebration of that most romantic form  of transportation. Holding a toy train, he gazes out his bedroom window onto the  bucolic countryside bisected by a set of tracks, while train cars "hoot and roar  as they rumble by my door." One long train stretches over the course of the  book; every two-page spread features several types of cars and the boy's simple,  rhyming descriptions. "Some carry steel; some carry scrap, or secret stuff  that's under wrap." The latter shows what's obviously an airplane, under cover.  Vibrant swaths of color and heavy black outlines make the vivid, almost  childlike pictures particularly pleasing to the eye. And as the last car rounds  the bend, we discover there's a special reason our hero loves trains so much,  especially the caboose! Tiny train fans will cheer to find this delightful  companion to Philemon Sturges and Shari Halpern'sI Love Trucks!. (Ages 3 to 6)--Emilie Coulter--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.