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THE BIG BOOK OF TRAIN STORIES by

THE BIG BOOK OF TRAIN STORIES

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Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

is geared for younger readers- the Read Aloud level- than most of the books in this series. A glance at the names of contributors places the interest level:- Margaret Wise Brown with her Two Little Trains; Miriam Clark Potter with The Animals' Train Ride; Louis Slobodkin with Clear the Track; and an assortment of fact and fancy, prose and verse, legend and tall tales. The section devoted to real railroads at work and the brief descriptions of some famous trains may well key the popularity with today's five to seven year olds.