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This week‘s lineup in the #LFL featuring some for the kiddos in the neighbourhood and this week‘s homemade bookmarks. Are we missing anything? #haidagwaii #littlefreelibrary #mixedbag

Currently looking for…

Fiction about or heavily featuring trains or train-drivers, suitable for 10 year-olds.

Thanks in advance!

This is a short but powerful book that builds the argument that the Hatfield train crash in 2000 resulted from an environment that diffused responsibility and blocked the free flow of safety-critical information. The details are shocking, and it‘s sad to read about them now because I am not sure how much has changed. I learned a great deal from this book.

Here are some photos of the train display. I love how they recreated Gumdrop Crossing!😄 Every year one of our local malls has this and several other train displays for the holidays. It‘s a family tradition to make at least one stop by to see the Christmas Train Garden.🎅🏼🎄🚂 #wintergames #ghostsofxmas @BookwormAHN

Such a cute little book! I just learned about it today after seeing a train display at the mall based on the book! 🎅🏼🎄😆 #wintergames #ghostsofxmas @BookwormAHN

“The engine huffs and hisses, the engine bangs and clanks!“ This is an example of the onomatopoeia.

This book is written in free verse and is a pretty lengthy book. Each page is filled very different illustrations and shows lots of onomatopoeia as well. I would recommend reading this book to early elementary classes because it has a lot of interesting pictures and detail as well as tree ideas about trains.

This book is all about how a family rode a a train for the first time in 1869. It goes into detail about the what the train looked like, the people on the train, the landscapes they saw and much more.

“Clank, Clank, Clank“

“Locomotive“ can be a useful addition to your teaching resources whether you are emphasizing particular academic objectives or just fostering a love of learning in your pupils. It's a useful and entertaining tool that teachers and students may use together. The book can be integrated into various subject areas, such as history, science, art, and language arts, making it a versatile resource for educators.