Locomotive
By: Brian Floca
2014 Honor Book for the Robert F. Sibert Award
2014 Caldecott Award Winner
Note: The Caldecott award is given each year to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Summary: Locomotive begins in the year of 1869 and details a persons journey on that of a train! As you take the ride, Brian Floca makes the trip come alive by detailing the sounds, the speed, the work it takes to keep the train moving, and the strength of the train and crew. The story is filled with alliteration and onomatopoeia that make your senses come alive.
Illustrations: Floca creates beautiful illustrations using watercolor, ink, and acrylic. The colors are subdued almost muted browns, tans, and earthy tones. Floca uses a variety of views in his illustrations from up close details to vignettes of the stopping points on the journey. What I found most exquisite were the end papers detailing exactly how a steam engine looked and the map of the train route.
Floca, B. (2013). Locomotive. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.
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