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Title: Inside Freight Train
ISBN: 0688170870
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Publicate Date: 2001-01-31
Publish: 2001-01-31
List Price: $9.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Board book
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $5.34
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $0.01
Amazon Merchant Price: $9.99
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1: One of the best toddler books ever
The slide-out pages are a HUGE hit with my two-year-old and they work perfectly with the freight train theme. Personally, I've never seen another book quite like it. The colors are bright, the text is simple, and almost every page holds something exciting to be found.
Like I've read in other reviews, my over-zealous toddler managed to break his book as well. However we just used clear packing tape to tape it back together as good as new.
If you're looking to buy a gift for a toddler that loves trains do not hesitate to buy this book - it will definitely be a big hit!
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2: Not as great as the first book - Freight Train
My boys (2 1/2 & 4) love Freight Train. I ordered this book and I am a little bit disappointed.
I thought it was a lift-a-flap book before I ordered it and it's a slide-out book. I don't think there are that many toddlers who can handle slide-out books. It's even hard for me to pull the page out and put it back. I don't think this book will survive any more than a month or two.
Another thing is, not every car shows what's inside. It shows inside of the Freight depot, the engine, box car, cattle car, refrigerator car (which was not in the Freight train book), stock car (new in this book as well), and the caboose. It doesn't show the inside of covered hopper car, gondolar car (I guess since this is a open one, it's okay), tank car, and open hopper car (which is not identified in the book as one).
Just like the other reviewer said, 'calves' were spelled wrong, so I just printed the word on a sticky label (using Arial Bold, font size 16, letter color white, and background black) and put the label over the wrong spelling. It doesn't look perfect, but the book's not perfect, either.
I guess 'higher the expectation, bigger the disappointment' is a true statement with this book.
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3: Sweet book:)
My son just turned two and has had a love of trains for quite some time.
We got the "Freight Train Board Book" from the library and he absolutely loved it. It was a book he carried around the house and looked at every moment he took time to sit down.
We had the book out for 6 weeks, the maximum allow time for a title to be out, and I knew he'd have a hard time parting with it.
I bought that book and noticed "Inside Freight Train" :)
It looked, and turned out to be, a very nice accompaniment to the first book.
Chase would keep both books with us a night time to read one and reference the other;-)
The only reason I marked 4/5 stars was due to the fact that the sliding pages started to fall apart after about a week of what I considered falrly regular, monitored, use:(
Still trying to figure out which glue will work best to affect a repair.
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4: Please learn to spell CALVES properly before publishing a book!
It is $10 wasted for me because my younger son tore the cover into 3 pieces the first time he got his hands on it, and before I had a chance to look through all the pages. Yes, it was that durable! This book went to the bin a week ago when my older son started sounding out words and we didn't want him to get the wrong start. Can't someone spellcheck a book before it is published? I'm surprised that noone has caught that mistake in the 4 years since it was published. Shame on the author and the publisher!
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5: What a cool book!
My son became fascinated with this book around 10 months, and 14 months later, still loves reading it. Over that time, he has used the book to learn colors (the freight cars are different colors) and things like the items that freight trains carry. He now loves watching trains from our back porch and knows more than steam engines than a lot of adults.
But alas, the book has not held up well due to repeated abuse at the hands of a toddler. Several patch-up jobs with clear packing tape have given the book a stay of execution.
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