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Keywords

accidents, careers, dreams, family, farm, friendship, geography, hard work, history, hope, multicultural, parents, slavery, sounds, spiritual, storytelling, stress management, train, transportation

Title

I dream of trains

Description

A young boy from Mississippi listens for the sound of the train whistle while doing his work as a sharecropper. As he picks cotton, he dreams of someday leaving on a train. He refers to the train whistle as a call to his soul.

Author

Johnson, Angela

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Illustrator

Long, Loren

ISBN

0-689-82609-5

City of Publication

New York

Year of Publication

2003

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Michele Gillespie, 2005

Citation

Johnson, Angela, “I dream of trains,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed October 1, 2023, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/13169.