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Peet,
Bill.
THE CABOOSE WHO GOT LOOSE
New York : Houghton Mifflin,
1971.
IL K-3 RL 3.5
ISBN 0395148057
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was the first Bill Peet book I discovered. My son loved trains and
we were always looking for books about trains to read to him. Do
any of you like trains? If you could be a train, which car would
you want to be? Well, this is a story of Katy Caboose. She
disliked being a caboose. She thought it was too smoky, jerky and
too many jolts! She was frightened on the tracks in the mountains
and afraid of caboose eating monsters in the dark tunnels. She wanted
to be free, and be anything but a caboose. As she traveled along
the tracks she thought of things she would like to be…a quiet elm tree,
a house on a shady street, or a cabin in the pines. When she got
to the freight yard she heard a voice, like a ghost. It was the shack
of the switchman sadly saying that she wanted to trade places with Katy.
For she thought Katy had the best life, being able to travel all over.
With her new point of view Katy decided not to complain, but to enjoy that
ride at the end of the train. But one hot afternoon, on a bare mountainside,
Katy's bolt became loose and she was free from that train. When the
track came to a curve it sent Katy flying through the air. You'll
have to read the rest, to find out what happened next. I hope
you enjoy this story as much as my son does! It's fun to read, because
it's written in verse, that means it rhymes like some poems. (Lorie
Green. Library Media Specialist, Manor Hill Elementary, Liberty, MO
lgreen@mail.liberty.k12.mo.us) |
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SUBJECTS:
Railroads -- Trains -- Fiction
Stories in rhyme |
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