I have a confession to make. I am very fond of my car. She has a name, Lucy, and I am proud of her because she protected me when a semi truck winged us, and she bravely brought us all the way across the country when we moved to the west coast. She never wavered even though there was a cat in her cargo area who howled for the entire journey. Lucy is a valued member of the family.
In today's picture book you will meet a boy who tells us what we need to know if we want to add a train to our family. A pet train. It may sound strange, but don't knock it until you have tried it.
How to train a train
In today's picture book you will meet a boy who tells us what we need to know if we want to add a train to our family. A pet train. It may sound strange, but don't knock it until you have tried it.
How to train a train
Jason Carter Eaton
Illustrated by John Rocco
Picture book
For ages 5 to 7
Candlewick Press, 2013, 978-0-7636-6307-0
If you go to a bookshop you will probably find dozens of
books about how to train dogs. There may even be a few titles about how you
might train a cat. What you won’t find is a book that will help you to train
you pet train. Why would a person want a pet train? The answer is simple: because
“Trains make awesome pets – they’re fun, playful, and extremely useful.”
The good news is
that anyone who wants to have a pet train can now get a little help thanks to
this book. Everything that you need to know to “choose, track, and train” your
new pet train can be found on these pages.
The first thing
you need to do is to decide what kind of train you want. Are you interested in
a freight train, or perhaps a monorail train is more suitable. Once you have
made your choice, you have to catch the train you want. You could try cornering
it or trapping it using a big net. The train expert featured in this book has
his own tried-and-true method that may seem complicated, but he swears by it.
When you get
your train home you have to give it a name. Any name will do. Then you have to
do what you can to make your train feel at home. It is only natural that the train
will be a little anxious at first. A hot bath can calm your train down. Some
trains like to be read to, while others respond well to “soft locomotion
sounds.”
It is not easy
to find helpful how-to books, but thankfully the author and the illustrator of
this book know a great deal about trains and their ways. With their help just
about anyone can become a successful pet train owner. The wonderful
illustrations beautifully show readers the joys of train ownership, and anyone
who reads this book carefully will find themselves wishing that they had a pet
train of their own.
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