The Polar Express

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Summary: School Book Review
Review: This book along with The Night Before Christmas are the top two books for Christmas reading of all time. You can decide for yourself which one is number three. I also watched the movie at the IMAX and was very impressed. You must provide this to your kids and read it to them every year they will sit still for it. While you're at it, buy "How to Date Your Wife" by Stan Cronin for yourself and your spouse. Read both these books each year and increase your family happiness ten fold.

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Summary: Give it to your child
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Good for Christmas time. If you did not know what Christmas Gifts to buy for the little ones, this book solves your problem. If the other parent is fascinated with health and longevity, add "Can We Live 150 Years?" by Dr. Tombak, and you are set. There will be no Christmas shopping hassle this year. At least not for me...



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Summary: A CHRISTMAS CLASSIC!
Review: this book is one of the best christmas books out there, besides the night before christmas. i have loved this book for so long, that know my future kids will love it too

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Summary: have not
Review: i have not got a email from you yet about my password can i buy from this sight


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Summary: Beautiful Illustrations.
Review: The reason that THE POLAR EXPRESS has become so popular is not necessarily because of the book's story. Well, actually the book doesn't have much of a story: boy questions if Santa exists, on Christmas Eve a train shows up at his house and whisks him off to the North Pole, he meets Santa and gets a sleigh bell, he loses the bell, goes back home, opens presents the next morning, the last present opened includes the lost sleigh bell with a note from Santa, and the boy becomes a life-long believer. At 32 pages with massive illustrations on most of the pages, that's about the entire story.

This is the book that inspired the movie, but the movie and the book are two completely different entities. The movie is a fable about faith, but this: the original story, is not. Instead, it's simply a magnificently illustrated Christmas story. That's it. The story isn't that impressive, but the illustrations are what make the book what it is. In that sense, the book is more a work of art than anything else. Outside of that, it makes a nice story to read around Christmastime or something that children who like trains might enjoy flipping through and reading. Just watch out for the wolves in the woods.

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Summary: Hop onto the Toot Toot Time Travel Train
Review: It's probably been 20 years since I read this book, but if I remember correctly, I didn't like it.
The train driver was scary to me as a child, he reminded me of an uncle that used to really love me. Too much...
And the drawings looked like they were made by computer technology that wasn't availiable at the time. I think they had a time machine and went from 1985 to the future and stole one of those Pixar computers to draw the drawings for this book. Little did they know that they might have messed with the space time continuium and that's why the Evil President Bush is leading America now, kind of like when Biff took over Hill Valley and made it evil.

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Summary: i don't think it's bad
Review: There's nothing bad about this book, per se, but my daughter refuses to read it. Every time I suggest that we read it for a bedtime story, she says, "No. I want to read something else." It is a mystery why she hates this book so much, because she likes other stories about Santa and Christmas. So this book has pretty much been a waste as far as our family is concerned.