Clickety Clack by Rob and Amy Spence Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: A train gets noisier and more crowded as quacking ducks, dancing acrobats, talking yaks, and packs of elephants board.

Flannel Board

	Puff, Puff, Chugga-Chugga by Christopher Wormell Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: "Puff, puff, chugga, chugga here comes the little train...the little train ends up holding many big passengers!"

	Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Two trains, one streamlined, the other an old-fashioned toy, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.

Song

	Freight Train by Donald Crews Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

Song

	I Love Trains! by Philemon Sturges Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: A boy expresses his love of trains, describing many kinds of train cars and their special jobs.

Films

	John Henry by Julius Lester Age Level: PreK-2
Synopsis: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

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More Books to Read On Your Own

Train Leaves the Station
by Eve Merriam
Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: A toy train and its occupants make a journey that introduces the numbers one to ten.

The Train Ride
by June Crebbin
Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: A journey on a train provides excitement, nice scenery, and pleasant anticipation.

Trouble on the Tracks
by Kathy Mallat
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: There's Trouble with a capital "T" lurking among the familiar faces as a train makes its way through the villages along its route.

The Little Engine That Could
by Walter Piper
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Classic story of a little engine trying to get to a circus to the other side of the mountain.

William and the Night Train
by Mij Kelly
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Mothers and fathers, teachers and jugglers -- everyone's aboard the night train. They're all sleepyheads, ready for bed, ready to ride the train to tomorrow. But the train won't go until wide-awake William shuts his eyes, too.

Crossing
by Philip E. Booth
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Waiting in a car at a railroad crossing.

Train Song
by Harriet Ziefert
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: A young boy watches a freight train go by on its daily run.

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More Songs for at Home

I'm a Little Red Train
(Tune: "I’m a Little White Duck")

I’m a little red train
Chugging down the track,
A little red train
Going up and back.
I travel all day
Going round and round,
Taking goods from town to town.
I’m a little red train
Going down the track,
Chug-chug-chug.

Ride the Train
(Tune: “Row, Row Your Boat”)

Ride, ride, ride the train
Quickly down the track.
Clickety, clickety, clickety clack
When will you be back?

This is a Choo Choo Train

This is a choo choo train
[Child becomes a train by squatting.]
Puffing down the track
[Child does actions that the rhyme states.]
Now it's going forward,
[Child goes forward.]
Now it's going back.
[Child goes back, etc.]
Now the bell is ringing
[Child pulls make believe bell rope.]
What a lot of noise it makes
[Cover ears and make train noises.]
Everywhere it goes.
[Children move around the room at random.]

This Little Train

This Little Train ran up the track
[Run your fingers up arm.]
Toot, toot, toot
[Make train whistle sound.]
And then it came toot-tooting back
[Run fingers down arm.]
Toot, toot, toot

Engine on the Track

[Point to fingers as rhyme indicates.]

Here is the engine on the track
[Hold up thumb.]
Here is the coal car, just in back
[Pointer finger.]
Here is the box car to carry freight
[Middle finger.]
Here is the mail care. Don't be late.
[Ring finger.]
Way back here at the end of the train.
[Little finger.]
Rides the caboose through the sun and rain.

Hear the Engine Puff

Hear the engine puff, choo-choo-choo,
Hear the whistle blow, toot-toot-too.
Hear the big bell ring, ding-dong-ding,
Hear the brakeman shout "All Aboard".

The Wabash Cannonball
Words by: Theodore Dreiser

From the great Atlantic Ocean
To the wide Pacific shore
To the queen of flowing mountains
To the southbell by the door
She's long and tall and handsome
And loved by one and all
She's a modern combination
Called the Wabash Cannonball

Oh listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through the hills and by the shores
Hear the mighty rush of engines
Hear the lonesome hobos' call
We're travelling through the jungles
On the Wabash Cannonball

The eastern states are dandies
So the western people say
From New York to St. Louis
And Chicago by the way
Through the hills of Minnesota
Where the rippling waters fall
No chances can be taken
On the Wabash Cannonball

Oh listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through the hills and by the shores
Hear the mighty rush of engines
Hear the lonesome hobos' call
We're travelling through the jungles
On the Wabash Cannonball

Here's to Daddy Klaxton
May his name forever stand
And always be remembered
Through the courts throughout the land
His earthly race is over
Now the curtains 'round him fall
We'll carry him home to victory
On the Wabash Cannonball!