Train: A Journey Through the Pages | Book Spotlight

The Children’s Book Review | October 6, 2016

You’ve never seen a book like this before!

Age Range: 4-8

Hardcover: 14 pages

Train: A Journey Through the Pages

Written by Mike Vago

Illustrated by Matt Rockefeller

Publisher’s Synopsis: You’ve never seen a book like this before! It’s the story of a train moving across the American landscape—but with an actual three-dimensional miniature train that loops up and down and across each spread, traveling along an interior track from front to back without ever leaving the pages.

Move the red steam engine out of the depot and to the front of the book, where the sun is just coming up over a bay, and then take a journey across wide plains, up mountains and down hills, into a city at night with its beacons of light—and finally, back to the rail yard. The panoramic landscapes are filled with marvelous details that young children will delight in discovering, and the sweet, simple rhyming language pulls the story along and will be happily repeated when it’s time to start the journey all over again. All aboard!

Ages 4-8 | Publisher: Workman Publishing Company | 2016 | ISBN-13: 978-0761187165

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About the Author

Mike Vago is the creator of the bestselling The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf and The Pocket Book of Pocket Billiards.

Read our article “My Writing and Reading Life: Mike Vago, Creator of Train: A Journey Through the Pages.”

About the Illustrator

Matt Rockefeller is a freelance illustrator and visual development artist.

Read our article “Illustration Inspiration: Matt Rockefeller, Illustrator Of Train: A Journey Through The Pages.”

www.mattrockefeller.com | mrockefeller.tumblr.com | Twitter: @mcrockefeller

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