Choo Choo Clickety-Clack!

by Margaret Mayo

Book Overview

Boats, trains, cars, planes, bikes, buses, and balloons soar and race, taking people to faraway places. Bounce, zoom, and rattle along in this bright, playful book jam-packed with vehicles of all shapes and sizes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575058197
• ISBN13: 9781575058191
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.0" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

My daughter loves it!

So many of these reviews talk about boys liking this book -- well, my two-year-old daughter can't get enough of it. We read it constantly. The collage-style artwork is straightforward enough to understand but detailed enough to hold her interest (she likes to find the various cats and dogs and kids that are on nearly every page). Note that the title emphasizes trains but trains are only on one page -- each page has a different vehicle. So whether you have a boy or a girl, if they have an interest in buses or trains or cars or airplanes or bikes or motorcycles or boats, or, like my girl, ALL of the above, give this book a try!

Great book for active little boys!!

This is a great book for active little boys (I guess girls too but we have a son). My son is 2 and has loved this book since we originally purchased it at age 1. We literally read it to him every single night before bed. The pictures are vivid and colorful and the story quite animated. It reads like a poem with so much flexibility in sound character while making the vehicle sounds. We utilize the story for educational purposes also. Not only will kids learn about various modes of transportations they will learn the medium in which they travel, how one differs from another, rationale for usage (getting to work vs. vacation) etc. You can really use the story to develop higher order thinking in your child. Its an excellent story. Highly recommended.

Excellent book for boys and girls

I first borrowed this book from the library and loved it so much that I had to buy a copy for my son's 3rd birthday. The art is amazing and the pictures are all very colorful. My son loves every form of transportation and it is all covered in this one book! He has memorized some of the pages and recites them with me as I read. I would recommend this book for any child, even as young as age 2 yrs. I also ended up buying two other picture books by the same artist and illustrator for my son's birthday.

Encourages Choo-Choo fever

Of course, every boy would not be complete without a healthy interest in trains, planes and every moving things. Our son loves this book and says "Choo Choo" nearly every night, asking us to read this book.

My 3 Year Old Loves It!

This book is positively poetic. Each page focuses on a different vehicle with bright, bold illustrations and rhythmic phrases with repeated patterns that kids will find contageous. My son began "reading" the book to me after a few days of repeated reading and applying the first line of each phrase to his everyday life! ("Crayons are great for draw, draw, drawing!")