Locomotive

Locomotive
Author: Brian Floca
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Reviewer: Aleece

Summary: Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

Review: Locomotive takes you on a journey across the country in a train, not just any train, one of the first trains to cross the country. The book is full of facts and natural scenery that is found along the railroad tracks. The watercolor pictures are absolutely wonderful and seemed to come to life off of the page.

This book has so much potential for classroom use and is wonderful for older readers. While the illustrations can classify this book as a picture book it is so much more and has so much more text than expected. This is a very long book but has so much information to offer. While the book crosses the country and explains about needing to change out engines, I found this book a little too long but overall was absolutely wonderful. Kids that love trains (probably older rather than younger) will just eat this book up.

This book won the 2014 Caldecott Award.