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CMLibrary Suggests: Trains Family Storytime

Great online resources to supplement our most recent online storytime about trains!

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

22 items

  • Sing along to our Open, Shut Them song from storytime! Then take a look at some more recommendations for ways singing can increase early literacy skills in young children.
    Web resource
  • The amazing sights of a train ride through the countryside whiz by in this deceptively simple rhyming book.
    eBook, 2017[United States] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
  • Chug along with Train while he is at work.
    eBook, 2013Chicago : Britannica Digital Learning, 2013.
  • Pete can't wait to visit Grandma, especially because he gets to take a train ride to see her! The conductor gives Pete a tour of the train, and Pete gets to see the engine and honk the horn.
    eBook, 2015New York : HarperCollins, 2015.
  • Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train. Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train.
    eBook, 2011[United States]: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011.
  • A little boy climbs into bed with a book and starts counting the train cars in it, between the engine and caboose.
    eBook, 20182018.
  • All aboard for Dreamland! Hold on to your pillow because the Goodnight Train is taking off. Roll that corner, rock that curve, and soar past mermaids, leaping sheep, and even ice-cream clouds.
    eBook, 2006[United States] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006.
  • The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded. Sweet and silly dreams are guaranteed for any budding train enthusiasts!
    eBook, 20132013.
  • Join Bear and his friends on the cozy Sleepy Train as it sets off on a magical nighttime journey.
    eBook, 20152015.
  • Join the fun as a train pulling a long, heavy load races a speedy, little car across the country; through the mountains, through the desert, through a
    Web resource
  • Thomas the Tank Engine and his friend Percy are startled-and scared-to see a dinosaur in the forest!
    eBook, 2017[United States] : HIT ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED, 2017.
  • Thomas and the Really Useful Engines are working hard getting the new airport ready for the grand opening. Then a terrible storm slows them down, and soon it is clear that all the engines are going to have to work together.
    eBook, 2005New York : Random House Children's Books, c2005.
  • All aboard for an engine adventure! Gordon thinks he's bigger and better than all the engines on Sodor!
    eBook, 2017[United States] : HIT ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED, 2017.
  • All aboard! In this book perfect for boys and girls ages 3 to 7, Nickelodeon's Bubble Guppies learn all about trains.
    eBook, 2015New York : Nickelodeon Publishing, [2015]
  • Take a trip on eight noisy trains as they huff, puff, and toot-toot their way through this lively book!
    eBook, 20122012.
  • All aboard for a train ride through the alphabet! There is a train—some familiar and some unusual—for every letter of the alphabet.
    eBook, 2015New York : Charlesbridge, 2015.
  • The Little Engine That Could

    The Complete, Original Edition

    Piper, Watty
    The story of a train filled with toys and gifts for little boys and girls that breaks down before reaching the children. After asking several passing trains for help over the hill, a little blue train agrees to help the stranded toys.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2018New York : Listening Library, 2018.