I'm Taking a Trip on My Train

I had rented this book from the library for my son and at 2 yrs old he loved it. After a couple of reads he could identify the different types of train cars, and parts of a train track. Now, at 3, he recites almost the whole book as we read it. Its good because the story builds on itself, and allows you to leave gaps for the child to fill in for you. He liked it so much i had to buy one of our own.

We discovered this at the library as well. My son (an early train lover) already responded to it at 15 months, and by 18 months was asking for it. At 20 months now, he knows words like "caboose" and "signal" because of this book! (Ok, maybe not the world's most useful words, but for a train lover...) The book is repetitive in a way kids seem to love, and has pictures for words in places so they can "read" along with you. The ending is also very cute, connecting train-world to the real world of baby's life. My husband is not a big fan of the illustrations (the cover gives a good indication of what they are like) and I agree they are somewhat cutesy and with little artisitc merit, but my son doesn't seem to care!

We discovered this book at the library and it became a favorite. After returning it our 3 year old kept asking for "the train book" and we couldn't remember the title. Her persistance drove our detective work (do you have any idea how many juvenile train books there are?) and it is now a bed-time, back-seat, grandma's lap, any-old-time-favorite. It is also the first book our little girl "read" back to us! This book has great rhymes, details to rediscover, and new vocabulary leading to more new vocabulary. Special memories..and a big thumbs up from our little engineer!

This book is a rhyme that repeats itself adding a verse at a time. It uses pictures of various train cars, etc. that my son shouts out as we get to them. Great for 3-4 year olds.