Description
About the book. How Trains Work takes children inside trains and onto railways through various landscapes. Lonely Planet Kids combines historical and geographical perspectives with illustrations of how railways function. Flaps and fold-outs allow for closer examination of stations, locomotives, and train carriages.
Content. From coal-fired steam locomotives to high-speed trains, the book illustrates various methods of transporting people and goods on rails. The journey traverses tunnels, crosses bridges, ascends mountainsides, and passes beneath cities and oceans. Long train journeys such as the Trans-Siberian Railway and Australia’s The Ghan are also included. James Gulliver Hancock’s detailed drawings are featured in a book developed with professional assistance from the National Railway Museum in the UK.
Who is this book suitable for? This book is suitable for children interested in trains, stations, and large transport systems. It can be read before a train trip or revisited to discover further details. The integrated flaps and fold-out pages complement the English text, which can be read together with an adult.
Read together and discover more. We recommend reading together with an adult who can assist with English vocabulary, allowing the child to articulate what they observe in the illustrations. Focus on one topic at a time, providing space for questions, brief pauses, and personal associations. Revisit spreads that spark interest; new details may emerge upon closer inspection. Connect what you read to things the child has seen at home, during trips, or in a museum. The book can serve as a basis for conversations in Norwegian, even though the text and captions are in English. Let the child’s interest and reading experience guide the pace, and feel free to alternate between reading aloud and jointly exploring the illustrations. Sharing discoveries is easy when multiple individuals can view the same spread and point out what they find. Such a reading session can extend to finding another book or a map to further investigate a question.
About the edition. English book, published 2019. 24 pages. ISBN 9781788683272.
