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Books in the Trains genre:

The Railway Children (1905)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Railway Children (1906)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Railroad Book (1913)

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Two children discover the railroad in their back yard. Read for free online at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Wonderful Locomotive (1928)

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Peter takes Old 44 on her last magical transcontinental run from New York to San Francisco and back in six days.

Author(s): Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

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Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer (1929)

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Early American railroading as seen through the eyes of the Dewitt Clinton, the first steam engine built for the New York Central Railroad. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1930
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1929
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The Little Engine that Could (1930)

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The Little Blue Engine thought she could, and she did.

Author(s): Mabel Caroline Bragg
Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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The Story Book of Things We Use (1933)

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An omnibus containing The Story Books of Houses, Clothes, Food, and Transportation.... View More

Author(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Story Book of Transportation (1933)

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The story of how we get from here to there from shanks mare to airplane. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Story Book of Ships and Trains (1935)

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An omnibus containing The Story Book of Ships and The Story Book of Trains.... View More

Author(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Story Book of Trains (1935)

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The story of the iron horse.

Author(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Story Book of Wheels, Ships, Trains, Aircraft (1935)

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An anthology containing The Story Books of Wheels, Ships, Trains and Aircraft.... View More

Author(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1936
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Choo Choo: The Story of a Little Engine Who Ran Away (1937)

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The story of a train engine that runs away.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s): Virginia Lee Burton

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Edgar: The 7:58 (1938)

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Edgar decides he has a right to arrive in Pittsville by 7:58 and he proceeds to astonish his train crew and the Boy. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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The Little Train (1940)

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Today Mr. Small is an engineer on the freight from Tiny Town to the big city.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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The Long Trains Roll (1944)

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Randy MacDougal stumbles on evidence of a sabotage ring aimed at the trains passing through Calico Gap and contacts the FBI.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

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Choo-choo Panorama (1945)

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This fold-out panorama of a train is ten feet long. The interior pages are die-cut along the top edge.

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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Clear the Track for Michael’s Magic Train (1945)

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Michael’s train starts in the living room, and brings you back home again.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

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Tootle (1945)

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Tootle wants to play in the meadow, but engineer Bill knows he has to stay on the track, no matter what. Later editions have fewer pages.

Author(s): Gertrude Crampton
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

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The Taxi that Hurried (1946)

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The little taxi gets Tom and his mother to the train station on time. Later editions are considerably shorter. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Irma Simonton Black
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Jessie Stanton
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

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The Circus Train (1948)

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Author(s): Jessie M. Knittle
Illustrator(s): Dorcas Knittle

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