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* New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing"


Goodnight Moon의 저자 Margaret Wise Brown이 글을 쓰고 Caldecott 수상작가인 Leo Dillon과 Diane Dillon이 그림을 그린 명작 그림책입니다.

조그만 기차 두개가 각각 서부를 향해 달려갑니다. 하나는 미끈하게 빠진 최신형 기관차이고, 다른 하나는 증기를 칙칙푹푹 뿜으며 달리는 구형 기관차입니다. 산을 넘고 다리를 건너, 비와 눈과 모래폭풍을 뚫고 마침내 넓은 태평양이 펼쳐지는 서부에 도착합니다.

왼쪽 페이지는 최신형 기차가 실제로 달리는 모습을, 오른쪽 페이지에는 장난감 기차가 집안에서 달리는 모습을 절묘하게 대비시켜서 보여줍니다. 잠자리에서 읽어주는 Bedtime Book으로도 적합합니다.







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Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0064435687
ISBN-13: 978-0064435680
책 크기: 27.6cm x 20.7cm



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Publishers Weekly
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon team up with Margaret Wise Brown in Two Little Trains, first published in 1949. Right from the cover, the sleek, horizontal illustrations chronicle the parallel journeys of the titular trains: a toy train wrapped in a gift box waits on the platform next to a massive modern train. "One little train was a streamlined train,/ Puff, Puff, Puff to the West./ One little train was a little old train,/ Chug, Chug, Chug going West." In one spread, the trains look down at the "deep dark river." The streamlined train races across a purple bridge while, opposite, the toy train crawls along the edge of a bathtub, the purple soap and tub basin connecting the tub scene to that of the locomotive.


Booklist
In Brown's remarkable text, two trains, a "streamlined train" and a "little old train" travel westward across prairie, desert, and mountain to the ocean at "the edge of the West." The rhythms, the word sounds, and the resonant echo of folk song set up a veritable hypnotic chant that changes as the trains move along. Jean Charlot's illustrations for the original edition of Two Little Trains (1949) are among the most perfect ever devised for a picture book. Having said that, it's necessary to put them out of mind in evaluating a new book with the same text. The Dillons' interpretation splits each spread into two large, horizontal illustrations, each showing one train. On the left, the first train is depicted as a powerful, modern (in the mid-twentieth-century sense) diesel train traveling through the American landscape. On the right, a little wooden toy train is shown at various locations inside a house. As the streamlined train rushes along a river, the toy train sits on the side of a bathtub. When rain falls on the larger train, water from the shower pelts down on the little train. When the big train climbs a mountain, the little train heads up the stairway banister. Visually, the paired illustrations are complementary in hues, dynamics, and details that children may or may not consciously recognize. The fact the toy train is not being moved by a child can make it look a little static compared with the implied motion of the diesel train, but that is a quibble about soft-grained paintings that are beautifully composed in both form and color. A handsome reinterpretation.


School Library Journal
Two trains are going west, through tunnels, over rivers, in rain and snow, over mountains until they reach the end of their journey. Brown's poem does not always scan easily, but for the most part, it reflects the rhythm of the moving vehicles. The Dillons have created two very different trains: on the left, a real one travels through the countryside; on the right, a toy travels through a house. The illustrations are rich in color and deceptively simple. Design elements such as round purple trees on the real train side carry over to the toy train side as a bowl of plums. Toddlers will enjoy listening to the poem and finding the trains. Preschoolers will look for more parallels