I Dream Of Trains
From AwardAnnals
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| Author(s) | Angela Johnson, Loren Long |
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| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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| The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones. | |
Papa says it’s the sound of leaving that speaks to my soul…
The poignant words of two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson and striking images from fine artist Loren Long join forces in this heartbreaking yet uplifting picture book about a boy, his love for trains, and his adulation of one legendary engineer.
It’s the story of a hero lost and a hero discovered, of a dream crushed then reawakened, but mostly it is a story of the force that sustains the human spirit—hope.
