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32 pp.
| Little Bee |
June, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4998-0167-5$16.99
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Illustrated by
Shane McG.
Eureka! A book about trains, robots, and superheroes. After Trainbots build a train ("Engine, tender, boxcars, wheels, / hitches made with iron and steel"), they jump aboard, not expecting to encounter sabotaging Badbots ("Engine stopping, hitches popping. / Now the train is flippy-flopping!"). Cushioning the Badbot-proof rhymes are dynamic illustrations suggesting an airbrushed The Little Engine That Could.