Sleep Train
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- £6.49
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- £6.49
Publisher Description
A perfectly pitched bedtime story and counting book for sleepy train lovers, illustrated in dramatic 3D sculptures!
A little boy climbs into bed with a book and starts counting the train cars in it, between the engine and caboose. "Ten sleepy cars going clickety-clack," reads the refrain. But as the boy counts cars and gets sleepier and sleepier, his room looks more and more like one of the train cars from his book--the sleeping car, of course!
Rhythmically told by the author of the Froggy books, Sleep Train is also stunning to look at. 3D illustrator, Lauren Eldridge, has sculpted an entire train full of intricate details. Part bedtime story, part counting book, part children's fantasy, Sleep Train is a magical ride to dreamland.
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This visually dramatic bedtime book features mixed-media three-dimensional models that Eldridge (Claymates) creates using found objects. An opening spread depicts the bedroom of a young train enthusiast reading a book in bed. The brown-skinned boy narrates his imagined journey on the eponymous train, which is headed through purple-pink twilight into the starry night: "Listen to the cows going mooo moooo.... Listen to the whistle going chooo-chooooo." The boy counts not sheep but "ten sleepy cars going clickety-clack": the tender, a boxcar, a tank car, a cattle car, a hopper, a gondola, a flatbed car, a coach car, a dining car, and his sleeping car, all sandwiched by "an engine in front and a caboose in back." Spreads alternate between intricate views of the train's regal interior and a countryside bathed in day's-end light. London (the Froggy series) effectively uses repetitive sounds that echo both a train's rhythm and the soothing sounds of a lullaby. Eldridge's sculptural images create a fittingly dreamy world. Ages 2 5. Author's)
