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Summary: This book is a very good read for young train enthusiasts...
Review: My 4 year old son really enjoys trains, and this book really has kept his attention and interest. It is an ideal book for a pre-schooler or young school-aged child who is interested in trains and has an active imagination. The illustrations are beautiful, and the story is a great combination of fantasy and reality. The train world is fascinating for many kids, and we were happy to find a book that has a fine moral (the love of family) as well as an entertaining plot.
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Summary: WARNING: some parts unsuitable for kids
Review: We have gotten both Daylight and President Washington for our 4 year old son. He loves them both. He has learned so much from the first two books in this series. He now knows about couplers, thunder, lightning, rockslides, brakes..... The songs are also great. He has memorized all of them.Unfortunately, the author took a vacation on the third book, "The Torpedo Run." In the story, Scoop and Tiny are able to stop the most powerful locomotive in its day by merely standing on the tracks. There is even a picture of this. We were so impressed by the first 2 books, we did not preview this before we let our son read it. (which I doubt we could anyway, as he had such great excitement after his grandmother gave it) We spent the next week trying to explain this. We cut the page with the picture out and intend to edit that part when we read it to him and also erased that part of the tape. What was the author thinking? This is geared towards children and he's showing how to stop a train by standing on the tracks!
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Summary: WARNING: some parts unsuitable for kids
Review: We have gotten both Daylight and President Washington for our 4 year old son. He loves them both. He has learned so much from the first two books in this series. He now knows about couplers, thunder, lightning, rockslides, brakes..... The songs are also great. He has memorized all of them. Unfortunately, the author took a vacation on the third book, "The Torpedo Run." In the story, Scoop and Tiny are able to stop the most powerful locomotive in its day by merely standing on the tracks. There is even a picture of this. We were so impressed by the first 2 books, we did not preview this before we let our son read it. (which I doubt we could anyway, as he had such great excitement after his grandmother gave it) We spent the next week trying to explain this. We cut the page with the picture out and intend to edit that part when we read it to him and also erased that part of the tape. What was the author thinking? This is geared towards children and he's showing how to stop a train by standing on the tracks!
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