Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

The boy who wouldn't go to bed | by Cooper, Helen

Not wanting to go to sleep, a little boy rides away in his car to find someone to stay up and play with him all night. As the determined little boy drives off, he encounters exciting things such as a lion and a parade of soldiers. After searching for someone to play with him, the little boy finds someone who is still awake.

Keywords: animals, assertiveness, bedtime, car, conflict resolution, disobedience, family, imagination, instruments, moon, music, night, parade, play, shadows, sizes, sleep, train, transportation

The everyday train | by Ehrlich, Amy

Jane lives near a train track. She would stop whatever she was doing to go and watch the train. She would play a game that corresponded to the color of each train cart.

Keywords: colors, games, imagination, play, train, transportation

Toot, toot | by Wildsmith, Brian

Let's count up to five and watch the animals on each page increase by one. Do you know what noises the animals make?

Keywords: animals, cat, chicken, counting, cow, dog, duck, noise, sequence, sheep, sounds, train

Moony b. finch, the fastest draw in the west | by McPhail, David

Moony B. Finch is an excellent artist and everything he draws comes to life. When Moony draws an old-fashioned passenger train, the train gets held up by Wild Willie. Moony saves the day by drawing a picture of Wild Willie and erasing it. Moony then draws a picture of his house so he can return home.

Keywords: adventures, animals, art, chicken, cowboys, creativity, family, five senses, greed, heroism, kangaroo, parents, pig, raccoon, shelter, touch, train, transportation

Peacebound trains | by Balgassi, Haemi

Sumi, a young Korean girl, lives with her grandmother when her mother goes off to the army. Sumi watches the train go by each day, wishing her mother would come home soon. The train reminds her grandmother of the days of war when she had to leave her own husband.

Keywords: affection, aging, birthday, caring, change, chinese, coping, courage, death, destruction, dolls, family, feelings, freedom, grandparents, hope, korean, loss, multicultural, peace, presents, sadness, school, seasons, train, transportation, understanding, war, winter

Window music | by Suen, Anastasia

The train trip of a little girl and her family is described through colorful illustrations and rhyming words. She travels over streets, past horses at play, around growing fruit trees, and through a city to the final stop.

Keywords: adventures, american, animals, car, family, food, grandparents, horse, ocean, plants, rhyme, sounds, train, transportation, travel, tree

Watch out! | by Smaridge, Norah

Signs are good things to have around because they keep you safe. Every sign has a purpose and danger strikes when you do not obey them. For example, watch your step signs tell you to be careful so you do not fall down and hurt yourself.

Keywords: animals, bicycle, bus, car, discovery, dog, environment, hospital, library, lion, nonverbal communication, park, poetry, rhyme, seal, toys, train, transportation, truck, verbal communication, zoo

Train ride | by Steptoe, John

A group of young boys take a trip on a train to go to a place that has mysterious games. They had a lot of fun on their trip.

Keywords: assertiveness, critical thinking, decision making, games, play, train, transportation, travel

I want to be | by Moss, Thylias

This young girl is asked, What do you want to be? She spends all day going around her town imagining all the things she wants to be. Finally, she figures it out. She wants to do everything.

Keywords: community, critical thinking, dancing, discovery, dreams, exercise, five senses, games, goal setting, imagination, instruments, kite, language, music, park, plants, play, self confidence, self esteem, sight, touch, train, transportation, verbal communication

Train leaves the station | by Merriam, Eve

This rhyming book uses the numbers one through ten in the fashion of one, two buckle my shoe.

Keywords: angel, animals, bodies of water, happiness, numbers, ocean, rhyme, snake, train, transportation, verbal communication

Starring mirette and bellini | by McCully, Emily Arnold

Young Mirette and the Great Bellini are high wire partners in Paris. While performing on a tour of Europe, they visit Russia where the people are not free. Bellini speaks to them about freedom during their act and is arrested. Then it is up to Mirette to be brave and rescue him from prison.

Casey jones's fireman: The story of sim webb | by Farmer, Nancy

Sim Webb is finally getting his chance to work on a train for the famous Casey Jones. Casey is putting a brand new whistle on his train, but Casey knows it's a bad idea. He knows that something bad is about to happen.

Keywords: accidents, accomplishment, african american, ambition, angel, argument, assertiveness, author's note, bias, bravery, courage, critical thinking, decision making, discrimination, fable, fire, heroism, multicultural, plants, prejudice, rescue, sounds, spiritual, tobacco, train, transportation

Bigmama's | by Crews, Donald

Each summer, young Donald Crews takes a train ride and car ride to Bigmama's farm. He plays with the his cousins on the big porch, then explores the shed, outhouse, toolshed, stable, barn, and pond for fishing. His family gathers around a big table to eat and celebrate being together.

Keywords: african american, animals, barn, bodies of water, car, family, farm, fishing, food, horse, multicultural, nutrition, play, pond, recreation, seasons, summer, train, transportation, travel

All aboard! | by Stevenson, James

Hubie and his family board a train to go to New York to see the World's Fair. At one of the train stops, Hubie gets off and mistakenly gets on another train going to California. During Hubie's attempt to get back on the train to New York, he meets some very helpful and interesting people. With their help, Hubie lands safely at the World's Fair.

Keywords: adventures, airplane, bravery, challenges, conflict resolution, critical thinking, excitement, family, kindness, lost, mistake, parents, rain, siblings, train, transportation, verbal communication, weather, wind

Milo's hat trick | by Agee, Jon

Milo the magician had one more chance to pull a rabbit out of his hat or else he would be fired. While searching for a rabbit, he finds a bear. The bear is able to pretend his bones are made of rubber and agrees to jump out of Milo's hat. The show is a huge success until the bear becomes tired. Milo wonders what he will do until he realizes that he too can pretend his bones are made of rubber.

Keywords: anger, animals, bear, bones, careers, clothing, disappearance, disappointment, entertainment, helping, magic, missing, performance, pretend, rabbit, restaurant, taxi, train, transportation

The train | by Lenica, Jan

A train that carries people and animals travels to magical places.

Keywords: animals, magic, train, transportation, travel

The triumphs of fuzzy fogtop | by Rose, Anne

Fuzzy Fogtop has a short memory. He cannot remember anything from the night before. Fuzzy decides to visit the next town, but he falls asleep on the train and does not know where he is when he wakes up.

Keywords: forgetful, laziness, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, self esteem, stress management, train, transportation, travel

Annushka's voyage | by Tarbescu, Edith

When Tanya and Annushka's mother dies, their father has no choice but to leave Russia for the streets paved with gold. Several years later, the girls' father sends two tickets for their own voyage to America. Before the girls leave, their grandmother gives them each a Sabbath candlestick which will light their way to the New World. Tanya and Annushka's voyage is filled with many sick and sleepless nights. The girls unite with their father by raising their candlesticks.

Keywords: animals, author's note, birds, bodies of water, colors, cow, death, doctor, dolls, excitement, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, horse, illness, immigrants, island, Jewish, letters, loneliness, loss, lost, multicultural, nonverbal communication, ocean, pigeon, prayer, russian, ship, smell, stress management, traditions, train, travel, verbal communication, writing

The tram to bondi beach | by Hathorn, Elizabeth

Kieran loves to watch the tram. He wants to be a paper boy at the tram stop like Saxon. So his dad gets him a job there, and after learning the job the hard way, he is successful.

Keywords: careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, friendship, goal setting, hard work, peer resistance, role model, self esteem, success, train, transportation, trolley, verbal communication

Two tickets to freedom | by Freedman, Florance

A true story of Ellen and William Craft, two slaves, who run away and try to find freedom.

Keywords: african american, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, escape, freedom, history, multicultural, slavery, train, transportation, truth

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