Trains

  • Alice books there's a railway journey Lewis Carroll
  • ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN.
  • Bear on a Train by Julie Lawson is a Canadian book that features trains and there's the classic
  • Black and White David Macauley
  • Black Cat_.  Christopher Myers, _We see the subways, in particular.
  • Box of Delights_.  John Masefield
  • Carries War Nina Bawden features WWII London evacuees going to Wales on a train.
  • Caught on a Train" by Carlo Gebler a train ride provides the vehicle for retellings of three Irish folktales within an overall plot.  The paperback edition is from Mammoth (UK), 2001.
  • Charlotte Yonge included trains in several of her books
  • Children of Cherry Tree Farm_, Blyton__
  • Diana Wynne Jones books:  The Crown of Dalemark and A Tale of Time City.
  • Ellen's Lion_ or _The Lion's Own Story_.  Crockett Johnson,
  • Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kaestner
  • Fell Farm holiday; Fell Farm for Christmas; Fell Farm campers Lloyd, Marjorie:
  • Ghost Train Paul Yee is a powerful picture book.
  • Gone-Away Lake" by Elizabeth Enright starts with Portia and her brother Foster taking the train to the country to spend the summer with their aunt and uncle.  There's a bit about the hard train ice cream that you have to whack to be able to eat...
  • Green Eggs and Ham_ Dr. Seuss, _
  • Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs (Sammy and the Dinosaurs in the US) has a scene where he leaves his toys/friends behind on the train and has to collect them from the lost property (lost and found) man.
  • Harry Potter
  • Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J. K Rowling
  • Here Comes the Train", Charlotte Voake is very interesting from this point of view.
  • Inter-city (picture book) Keeping, Charles:
  • John Harewood in "The Pillars of the House" is injured in a railway accident.
  • Knot in The Tracks, set in Russia-
  • Lemony Snicket Kids ride trains
  • Little House books, possibly Silver Lake, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little Red Engine books Diana Ross:
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Nightmare Express by Linda Hoy
  • Oi! Get Off Our Train John Burningham,  features an imaginative train ride.
  • Paddington Bear
  • Prince Caspian Lewis, CS: (waiting on the railway station to go back to school)
  • Railway Children
  • Round Trip_ Ann Jonas, _
  • Silver on the tree Cooper, Susan:
  • Skimbleshanks the railway cat by T.S.Elliot...
  • Slake's Limbo
  • Steam on the Line Philip Turner:
  • Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean.
  • The Box of Delights by John Masefield
  • The Children of Green Knowe= Lucy Boston's is a railway journey,
  • The Forest of Boland Light Railway; (D.J. Watkins-Pitchford):
  • The Iron Way by Gillian Cross
  • The Little Engine That Could_. Watty Piper
  • The Little Train Graham Greene:
  • The Little Train_ Lois Lenski, _
  • The Mysteries of Harris Burdick_ Chris Van Allsburg, _
  • The Night Watchmen Helen Cresswell-- a wonderful book that won
  • the Phoenix Award -- is about a ghostly train from the past that appears in the night. It will tingle your spine!
  • The Polar Express_ Chris Van Allsburg, _
  • The Railway Children_ E. Nesbit, _
  • The Secret of Platform 13_ Eva Ibbotson, _
  • The Secret Railway Elizabeth Beresford:
  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase   Joan Aiken.  Early in the novel Sylvia is sent via train to her cousin's house.  On the train she is tempted with wonderful boxes of cakes (I get hungry just thinking about them), attacked by wolves, and introduced to one of the book's trickier villains.  A second train ride at the end of the novel is more jolly, but less eventful.
  • The Wrong Trousers_ by Nick Park  This is one of the "Wallace and Gromit" films, but there is a book version of it
  • Thomas the Tank Engine' series Rev. Awdry:
  • Tom Mouse Ursula Le Guin spring, 2002). It is the story of a mouse who leaves his home in the railway station restaurant in order to broaden his horizons He is adopted by an old woman while on the train and together they ride trains and planes, seeing the world
  • Train episodes in Antonia Forest's "Autumn Term" and "End ofTerm"
  • Tug of war" by Joan Lingard
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