The whistle on the train

Margaret McNamara

Illustrated by Richard Egielski; paper engineering by Gene Vosough.

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2008.

The adaptation of the wheels on the bus rhyme this time is based in train related tings as the tracks, tunnels, signs and more. The combination of beautiful illustrations and the pop-up artwork is highly attractive, and very interactive to children who loves the trains but overall the action story books. On it you can see how the characters interact with the landscapes. Some of the rhymes go like this:

"The whistle on the train goes whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, the whistle on the train goes, whoo, whoo, whoo all the way yo town", "The wheels on the train goes clackety clack, clackety clack, clackety clack the wheels on the train goes clackety clack, all through the town"

 Margaret McNamara has won the Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio Best Book Award for her series of the Pumpkin Patch. And Richard Egielski is an award winner illustrator and author of many children books.