This book has beautiful illustrations which are ripe for emulation, from watercolour to pencil line drawings. I liked how the story had a twist at the end making the children question whether it was real or all a dream. This book was very useful in showing how inclusion of those different to yourself can allow you to experience different things and diversify your own knowledge. It won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration and heralded the beginning of an extraordinary career spanning 50 years. Beautifully illustrated, and joyfully subtle, the environmental message is strong yet, blends in well with the story.

A little girl playing with her train set just before bed enters an adventure in her dreams, taking her toy dog on a long train journey. Each character has a sorry tale to tell - from the elephant hunted for its tusks to the crane whose home is destroyed. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.The children enjoyed pretending to be on the train and used improvisation to decide whether they would let the animals on and why they would want to get on if they were the animals.

Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The boy allows the tiger to stay aboard the train because the tiger cannot stay in his home due to all of the trees getting cut down in his forest.The boy dreams of being a train driver, assisted by his pet pyjama case dog who has come to life, and they enjoy their journey and when it looks as though it is going to be foggy, the boy says that they can play ghosts. I agree it is important children know about these challenges, but how comfortable I would feel reading this again now I know the meaning behind it? Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.

If your child has a toy train or suitable construction set and small figures they can use these to tell the story. The pictures are basic or you could even say childlike, which could well inspire confidence for children to attempt illustrate their own stories. All the separate segments are cleverly interlinked, but at the same time providing convenient places to stop and pick it up another time, allowing the teacher to spread the reading over several days.This is effective as not an in your face 'humans are terrible' but could allow a child to realise this is not right - animals don't deserve to be treated that way and understand ways in which this could be improved.

There were some really powerful environmental issues within the story with the animals being endangered and the children used speaking and listening tasks to think about these issues. Ties in very well to a lot of geography issues, human destruction of our planet and the animals that live within it.Give your child a long piece of paper and crayons to draw a picture of the train with all the animals. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. When the story is playfully read; Emphasis on the shout with a hand fist pumping in the air all together; Involving the children in predicting; adding a unit on endangered species; including children in picking an animal that’s endangered and studying it while creating solutions to the problems of their plight. Locomotive enthusiast connected to animal activism involving stewardship of the earth was exactly the kind of reading we got excited about book 📖. Rather than doing so, he decides to enter an adventure of riding on his train, picking up animals along the way.