Age: Preschool-3rd grade
Things that go: Historical train ride
Nonfiction: History
Award: Caldecott 2014

Fact-hungry kids will be climbing aboard this detail-driven book about the iron horses of the past (1869, to be exact). Floca provides an amazing presentation of historical facts paired with sound effects, cool font (to break up the text), and fantastic pictures full of cool angles and movement. This is definitely a book for younger kids that want to learn as much about trains as they can.