All Aboard ABC

Lots of new, technical terms for the young child who loves trains and is learning the alphabet. May be too technical for the casual encounter. Good pictures.

My son eats, thinks, sleeps, dreams, breathes, and plays trains on a daily basis. He even talks in his sleep about trains. My son is also the type of child who will look at his father's train magazines for hours, but until recently, had no interest in "children's books". We checked this book out the library, and he loves it. He likes pictures of real things weather it is animals, nature scenes, or train scenes. I would recommend this book because it has pictures of real objects, and it has simple text. Although it is an ABC book, I would recommend it even if it was not. As for the comment about the pictures not being interesting, it depends on what you define as interesting. For example, if you are not interested in trains, a large picture of a coupler is not going to be interesting, but if you are two year old child who loves trains and knows what a coupler is, the picture is very interesting.

My two year old knows his alphabet already, but this book is encouraging him to take that next step of associating the alphabet with words. He is a train fanatic and seeing upper and lower case letters presented with train-associated words and pictures has him spouting off train terms when asked what words begin with particular letters. As noted in the editorial review, some of the pictures are a bit muddy and uninteresting -- but for the most part this book in is my son's daily repertoire of books and one he begs to take with us when we leave the house. I would definitely recommend this book as one which inspires learning about trains, with the sneaky benefit of learning about letters and words. The only reason I will not give it 5 stars is because I think it could have included more interesting pictures for some of the letters, but I give it 4 stars because it does acheive the goal of teaching the alphabet with train visuals - and because this book is dearly loved by my 2 year old.

This is educational and fun. Perfect for my 3 year old nephew.It has real train pictures and the alphabet - at 3 the little ones canquickly recognize and identity trains. Perfect for matching them withletters. A very good book.