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A dad and two kids, stylized pictographs all, enjoy a day on the trains of New York City. While the rhyming text is dispensable, the gouache paintings on black backgrounds capture the mystery of the dark tunnels, the excitement of a ride, and the intriguingly complex labyrinth of the subway system, each line correctly color-coded.