- Taschenbuch: 48 Seiten
- Verlag: Dragonfly Books; Auflage: Dragonfly Books. (5. Juli 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0517882043
- ISBN-13: 978-0517882047
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 5 - 8 Jahre
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 28,8 x 0,4 x 22,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.072.433 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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One night, as a little boy goes to sleep clutching his pajama-case dog, he drifts off into an elaborate, imaginative journey by train. But what's this? One endangered animal after another--an elephant, a seal, a tiger--tries to join the boy and his dog on their global junket.
"Please let me ride on your train. I live in the frozen North and somebody wants my fur to make a coat out of, and soon there will be none of us left," says the polar bear.
At first the boy and his dog are reluctant to let the animals on the train--"Hey! Get off our train!" they shout--but as each critter explains its particular plight, they welcome it on board. Children will learn about the perils facing animals around the world--tusk taking, pollution, marsh draining, deforestation--but they'll also be happy to see the boy and his dog rescuing the animals one by one. John Burningham has a knack for keeping the mood playful while communicating a strong environmental message. With his strikingly original illustrations and gently rhythmic text, this highly acclaimed author- illustrator well deserves his Parents' Choice Award for this unusual book. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1999 by John Burningham. With permission of Crown Publishers, Inc.) (Ages 4 and older)
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-- In a dream sequence, a boy and his canine companion board his toy train for a trip around the world. They interrupt their journey to get off the train and play, but when they return they discover that an uninvited elephant has come on board. The pair are indignant--until they learn of the elephant's plight: he has become an endangered species because of his tusks. In their travels, they in turn encounter a seal, a crane, a tiger, and a polar bear, each recounting the environmental hazards that threaten its survival. The animals are then welcomed aboard. In the final scene, when the boy's mother comes to wake him, she voices her suspicions about his nocturnal activity, for the house is now full of exotic animals. The book's message is loud and clear. While readers will be in complete sympathy with the philosophy espoused here, they may resent the book's heavy-handedness. The pen-and-ink/pastel sketches of the boy and the animals have an endearing innocence, and there is a Turner-like quality in the full-page illustrations that depict an old-fashioned, coal-powered locomotive bursting with power and energy as it clatters along. Good intentions, laudable as they may be, do not make a successful picture book. --Phyllis G. Sidorsky, National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This book was purchased for my 3 year old daughter, however,after reading once to her it seems much to negative - apparently everyanimal is doomed to extinction. While several of the pictures are quite dark and a bit foreboding to a child. I wouldn't recommend it.
Format:Taschenbuch
The story line of this book is great, and it did win a Parent's Choice award for Illustration. I can understand PARENTS giving this book an award for illustrations. However, when I read it to my 3 1/2 year old twin grandsons, they panned the art work! I have to agree with them. It is too "artsy" for children. At times very pastel, to the point of fading away, and at other times too dark and foreboding. One ink drawing of criss crossing lines was especilly puzzeling. You can barely see the train in it for the dark heavy lines. In fact, the train, seems to fade out, is too dark to see, is too small, or too pastel on almost every page. Trying to explain the illustrations became the focal point of the book, which I am sure was not the author's intent.
In short. While the story line is great, the illustrations make this book more suitable for children 6 and older.
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More Whimsical Than Dark, A Marvelous Book!
7. Dezember 2001
Format:Bibliothekseinband
This book features two seminal kid pleasers--animals and trains. I am a teacher who has read the book to dozens of children who have really enjoyed it. I would like to defend it agains the "dark" criticism. In my experience, children haven't been scared, upset or bothered by the story or the illustrations. They have been empathetic however, and perhaps that bothers some adults. The illustrations are lovely, misty, giving a feeling of riding the train out at sunset around the world. The little boy hero of the story has fun, whimsical adventures with all of the animals. My experience with kids is that they like the illustrations and smile when when they discover an interesting detail hidden in the mist. The story has a positive message--the little boy finds room on his train for all the animals, and they end up at his house. Perhaps the ending is simplistic and overly optomistic for some, but it's a little kids fantasy story! I believe the underlying message is positive and possible, that we can make room in our lives to exist in peace with all G-d's creatures. I have had kids act out this story as a skit and make animal cosutmes, and they had a ball doing that. Also, kids could make up other adventures for the little boy and his train, involving other endangered animals. One of the best books I have found for young kids that tells about endangered species in a poetic way, which helps them understand the basic concepts involved. Again, it is simplistic, but this book is for pre-schoolers and early elementary kids who are just being introduced to the topic. Although the third and fourth graders who did the skit liked it as well! It could spark discussions with kids about what's really going on in the world with endagered species, and what people can or should do about it, but that's our job as parents and teachers, to help kids cope with and understand life with all it's highs and low and contradictions.
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HEY!!!!!
16. Juni 2009
Format:Taschenbuch
Our son knew by heart when to holler out, "Hey! Get off our train." I doubt that the message of extinction was even subliminally taken in. It was the joy of yelling its title over and over that made our son so happy.
4 von 5 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Fun Message: Animals Are Our Friends
8. August 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
HEY! GET OFF OUR TRAIN is a fun book for children. The book may appear somewhat dark to adults; but that is possibly because we're torn over how to treat endangered species. From the child's point of view, this is a book about a boy who takes a magical train ride with rare and unusual animals. It's fun; it's exciting! It shows a boy who makes room on his train for all of the animals who ask for his help. Because the train looks like his toy train, there is a hint that the train ride may exist only in his imagination. But, in the end, it seems that his nighttime train ride was real. This is great fun for children!
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