Book Synopsis

Get to know things that go in these action-packed board books featuring sliding counters!

Discover different types of trains in this series of interactive board books with easy-to-use moving parts.

Learn vehicle vocabulary with simple first words, clear diagrams and helpful text prompts to encourage discussion. Then trace the transport around different tracks with a moving counter on every spread and the cover. The perfect book for children who love diggers and dump trucks -and being in the driving seat!

Other titles in the series include: Farm, Building Site, Cars, Trucks, Emergency

Review Quotes

Okay, I'm getting nitpicky now. Why include this year's "Make Tracks" title by Johnny Dyrander Trains and not Trucks? I can't believe I have to say this out loud since it's so obvious, but come on people! The choo choo sound! Look, I know the truck makes a very nice "Rrrr Rrrr" sound, and I don't want to disparage that. But is there even any competition out there to the "chugga chugga" and "choo choo" sound of a train? Let me tell you, when my kids were littles I killed, killed I say, with my chugga chugga rendition of Freight Train by Donald Crews, thank you very much. And now here we have a train that a kid can actually move within a book on a little track? You're gonna tell me there's not gonna be some SERIOUS chugga chugga action going on there? And yes, pedants, I know that the freight train in this book doesn't actually say chugga chugga. Who the heck cares? I'm making the freight train, the steam train, the subway train, AND the high speed train all say it! Who's gonna stop me? No one, that's who. So for true chugga chugga action, this is the book to get. Nuff said.--Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production

"So for true chugga chugga action, this is the book to get. Nuff said. "--Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production

About the Author

Johnny Dyrander is an illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden. He was born and raised above the Arctic circle in northern Sweden and grew up surrounded by reindeer and northern light. He moved to Stockholm in his early twenties and began studying at various art schools. He's been working as an illustrator since he finished his studies at the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm.

When he's not spending time in his office illustrating, Johnny likes to travel, spend time with his family or drive down to his house in southern Sweden, pick up a hammer and saw and pretend to be a carpenter. He builds things in wood with quite mixed results.