Disney All Aboard! Mickey's Railway (An Abrams Extend-a-Book): A Board Book

by Nichole Mara, Andrew Kolb (Illustrator)

Overview

In Disney All Aboard! Mickey’s Railway, illustrator Andrew Kolb invites young readers to take a train ride with Mickey in this accordion-fold board book, with flaps to lift on every page.

All aboard! While reading a simple story about Mickey’s train ride to the countryside, fold this book out car by car to explore the train inside and out—and meet Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and more of Mickey’s pals along the way!
Each page has a flap to lift for added seek-and-find fun, and the back sides of the pages feature a running landscape with plenty of fun objects for young readers to discover and count. A magical, interactive ride from beginning to end!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419752360
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	03/23/2021
Series:	An Abrams Extend-a-Book
Pages:	8
Sales rank:	456,598
Product dimensions:	11.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Illustrator Andrew Kolb first garnered attention with his illustrated version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” Since then, he has created illustrations for clients including chickaDEE magazine, the Toronto Zoo, and Pixar. He is also the author of Edmund Unravels and the illustrator of All Aboard! Let’s Ride a Train, All Aboard! The Christmas Train, and All Aboard! The Airport Train. He lives in Ontario, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

"Poring over each car’s crowded contents offers distractions and discoveries aplenty." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-05-05
Licensed Disney characters and hidden items galore await discovery on the latest fold-out train in this well received series.

Following the general track of previous entries, readers are invited to join Mickey Mouse on a quest for his hidden kite. Unfolding pages and lifting up large flaps on their way through the train, they are challenged to pick out significant details like green, red, sour, and sweet foods on a laden table in the dining car, zigzags and stripes on a blizzard of hair bows created in the lounge car by fellow passenger Minnie, and dozens of acorns scattered throughout by Chip and Dale, among others. A landscape on the back sides of the cars offers opportunities to count sheep and spot a few more surprises. Poring over each car’s crowded contents offers distractions and discoveries aplenty—but it’s hard not to notice that Kolb devotes more attention to the settings than to the Disney content. He depicts the cartoon cast members looking at each other or off into the distance rather than at viewers and Mickey, cast as the chatty narrator, with his mouth closed most of the time. The figures look posed rather than expressive…not exactly pasted in, but not really participating in the action either. The sense of disconnection extends to the narrative, in which all of the characters appearing here consistently get name checks except Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

The commercial angle may earn sales, but the train may be running out of steam. (Board book/novelty. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews