All Aboard!: A True Train Story
Richly detailed photographs take children through the Colorado Rocky Mountains on a steam train. The rhythmic text highlights the fascinating mechanical noises of chugs, click-clacks, whoos, and hisses that children will love to repeat.
Pennsylvania Center for the Book Awards
Book Activities & Discussion Ideas
While reading the book, demonstrate for children how to imitate train sounds and actions. For example, when the story says, "chugga-chugga," children can make this sound and move their hands and arms in a circular motion close to their sides.
Share with families how the photography in this book provides an opportunity to talk with children about details that they see in the photos. How many trains? How many train cars? How many people? What colors? What objects? (e.g., wheels, railroad tracks, railroad signs, bridges, mountains, rocks, trees, a river, etc.) Encourage families to have children make comparisons between the items in the photographs and what they might find in their own community.