How Trains Work (How Things Work)

by Lonely Planet Kids (Author) James Gulliver Hancock (Illustrator)

How Trains Work (How Things Work)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: How Things Work

All aboard!

From the fastest to the longest, the oldest to the newest, through tunnels, across bridges and up mountainsides, take a fascinating ride through the world of trains in this brilliant new book from illustrator James Gulliver Hancock.

In this follow-up to How Cities Work and How Airports Work, young readers travel through history and around the world to find out everything they ever wanted to know about trains. Unfold pages and lift flaps to reveal bustling stations, old steam locomotives fueled with coal, and high-speed trains zooming across Japan at almost 400 miles per hour! And that's not all. See how trains reach the top of mountains, transport people under cities, and work beneath the sea. And don't forget to dress up-we'll take you on some luxurious journeys including the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok, and The Ghan, which runs all the way across Australia! How Trains Work is jam-packed with amazing facts and awesome illustrations, and was created in consultation with Anthony Coulls, Senior Curator of Rail Transport & Technology, National Railway Museum, UK.

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Lonely Planet Kids
Joe Fullman is a freelance author based in London. Over the past 20 years, he has - by a rather neat symmetry - written and contributed to guidebooks to around 20 countries. That means he's visited an awful lot of museums - although he's always happy to fit in a couple more. In between his foreign adventures, Joe has also found time to write children's books on everything from dinosaurs and space to music and ancient history. Joe also authored Incredible Cabinet of Wonders for Lonely Planet Kids, released in October 2017.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781788683289
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Publication date
October 15, 2019
Series
How Things Work
BISAC categories
JNF057050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Transportation | Railroads & Trains
JNF058000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Travel
JNF051120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | How Things Work/Are Made
Library of Congress categories
Toy and movable books
Railroads
Railroad trains
Lift-the-flap books

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