Dinosaur Train

by John Steven Gurney, John Steven Gurney (Illustrator)

Overview

All Aboard!

Have your tickets ready for the most exciting ride of your life on the Dinosaur Train!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060292454
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/17/2002
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	367,451
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

John Steven Gurney grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He studied illustration at Pratt Institute and spent summers drawing caricatures on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Since 1984 he has illustrated board games, advertisements, magazine stories, and more than 70 books for children, including all of the titles in the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series and the A to Z Mysteries series. He now lives in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dinosaur Train is the first book he has written and illustrated, and it was inspired by his son's love of dinosaurs and trains.

John Steven Gurney grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He studied illustration at Pratt Institute and spent summers drawing caricatures on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Since 1984 he has illustrated board games, advertisements, magazine stories, and more than 70 books for children, including all of the titles in the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series and the A to Z Mysteries series. He now lives in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dinosaur Train is the first book he has written and illustrated, and it was inspired by his son's love of dinosaurs and trains.

Editorial Reviews

A boy's love of trains and dinosaurs meet up in a fabulous fantasy ride in Gurney's debut picture book.....the illustrations mine a deep well of childhood enthusiasm for a Jurasic cast and adventures on the rails.

Publishers Weekly

Thursday was a day much like any other for Jesse. Trains and dinosaurs. Dinosaurs and trains.' In a brisk, bright, solo debut, Gurney combines these two near-universal obsessions; Just as Jesse is getting ready for bed, a huge spikey tail extends through the window, and the call comes: 'ALL ABOARD!' Who could resist? Off Jesse rides on a train filled with enormous dinos of diverse, recognizable sorts, all sporting a range of human attire from business suits to blue jeans. The train is derailed when everyone rushes to one side to view an exploding volcano, but with Jesse's help, it's soon back on track, steaming bedroom-wards with a Tyrannosaurus engineer perched atop the boiler. The author gives his towering prehistoric passengers a friendly look, and depicts them with a crisp precision enhanced by white or plain-colored backgrounds. Here's a train that will never want for pajama-clad passengers-no ticket required.

Kirkus Review

PreS-Jesse thinks about, dreams of, and lives for two things: dinosaurs and trains. One night, he hears a loud noise and feels the house shake, and, with a cry of "ALL ABOARD!," the boy finds himself embarking on an exciting train ride with all sorts of dinosaurs, eating and having a small adventure with them. The story is slight, but it's the idea of enjoying a good time with benign happy dinos, together with the brilliantly colored and lovingly detailed illustrations, that will stay with young readers and probably spark many requests for bedtime repetitions.-Marian Drabkin, formerly at Richmond Public Library, CA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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