Trains
Atheneum Books for Young Readers · Hardcover · July 1, 2025
All aboard for this bold and graphic visual history of trains and railroads by award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee—now with a new look!
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- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in the history of trains and railroads
- Themes
- Railroad history, Transportation technology, Railroads and American life
- Genres
- Trains, How Things Work, Inventions
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All aboard for this bold and graphic visual history of trains and railroads by award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee—now with a new look! A symbol of adventure and possibility, trains have been getting people and things to where they need to go for almost two centuries! First, steam engines hissed billowing clouds into the air, then gleaming diesel locomotives pulled boxcars, freight cars, and sleek passenger cars north, south, east, and west.
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The story of how trains began barreling across the landscape is one of new machines, new inventions, new jobs, and new hopes. Railroad travel started with steam-powered wagons on a tramway and developed into a technology that would change the day-to-day life of Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and forever connect one coast to another.
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in the history of trains and railroads
- For readers drawn to graphic visual histories
Where it sits
| Trains | 100% |
|---|---|
| Inventions | 57% |
| How Things Work | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- How Things Work
- Trains
- Inventions
- Authors
- Lynn Curlee
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Published
- July 1, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Railroad history · Transportation technology · Railroads and American life
- Reading lane
- How Things Work