Donald Crews - Freight Train

Pros: Simple, Easy to read, great illustrations, educational
Cons: ~~~

Last week I took care of my four year old grandson, Mikey. One morning he brought in a book that he wanted me to read to all of the children. His Mom checked to be sure thatFreight Train wasn’t too advanced of a book for my young charges and le ...

Pros: trains, simple, basic, colorful
Cons: nothing

Being the train lover that my little nephew is, he has his aunt always on the look out for anything that has to do with the locomotives. So when I was shopping recently, I came across Freight Train in the bargain bin of my local bookstore. Always h ...

Pros: fun, educational, short, easy to read, simple illustrations
Cons: -------

On a recent trip to the local library, I picked up Freight Train for my 3 year old son. Out of the hundreds (or was it thousands) of books there let me tell you why I choose to check this one out.

My son is currently still learning his...

Pros: nice illustrations, quick story
Cons: none

My son seems to love vehicles of all sorts. Donald Crews has written some very simple books about vehicles that my son seems to really enjoy. Freight Train is one of those books that he has really taken to. It is a fun book that is short enough for ...

Pros: beautifully illustrated
Cons: simplistic

Freight Train Donald Crews The most amazing part of this book in my mind are the illustrations. The first picture starts out black and white, and then as the author labels the cars in a train, each one is shown in a different vibrant color. When ...

Pros: Sturdy, beautiful to look at, some educational value
Cons: Other than violence, nudity, swearing, none.

This review is of the board book version, thus the comments on sturdiness.

I picked up Freight Train after reading the review written by bops_mom. She also included the entire text of the book, which I was going to do but forgot she...

Pros: Teaches colors, concise sentences, interesting subject.
Cons: Don't have one

We opened this book and took a train ride through cities, over trestle bridges and through tunnels. We learned the names of different cars on the train and watched the train speed past us.

It's a wonderful adventure to take and even better if...

Pros: Teaches Colors, Caldecott Honor Winner
Cons: none

Freight Train, by Donald Crews, is a Caldecott Honor book (the Caldecott Medal is given to artists of American picture books).

Freight Train is the "story" in pictures and simple text of a train with different colored cars. It...

Pros: content,design,colorful
Cons: none

Freight Train is a wonderful childrens book. The nice part of this book is that it encourages the child to learn colors and types of railroad cars. After a few readings of this book the child will begin to fill in the right words on the right pages. The...