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VERY LONG TRAIN by Eric Carle

VERY LONG TRAIN

A Folding Book

illustrated by Eric Carle

Pub Date: Oct. 6th, 1972
ISBN: 0690860072
Publisher: T.Y. Crowell

Wordless non-books, each folded to a trim 8fl x 6(apple) but reaching when opened the Very Long dimensions promised in the titles. The tail, curled up on the first panel and attached to a head that appears on the last, stretches along the bottom of the ten intervening "pages" which become a kind of bargain basement frieze in wild Wildsmith-y colors of an unimaginatively represented hippopotamus, lion, seal, monkey, peacock, and kangaroo. The train, between blue engine and caboose, is a series of open cars filled with animals of the same hackneyed ilk. This might do to decorate the top of the picture book cases if there were not so many picture books with more attractive covers and more rewarding contents.