Description: In this bedtime storybook that's ideal for dads to share, Brad, the engineer of the Bedtime Train, takes youngsters to wild places full of adventure. Full color.

Children's Literature Review: Sometimes, when sleep just won't come, it is time to call the bedtime train. And "Chugga-chugga, toot-toot…" into your room it rumbles, with an engineer named Brad who looks like your dad. In rhyming couplets, the narrative takes you off on an extraordinary adventure. Through the forest you avoid a wolf and a bear with the aid of a handy gum machine. Encounters past Alligator Lake are followed by a tunnel to an icy place, where the penguins who have accompanied you are delighted to be home. When Brad fears you are lost, the gum machine comes to the rescue to get you safely back. The adventure in the text pales beside the richness of the visuals across the double pages. The book cover is plain cloth, the black of night perhaps, while on the paper jacket Odone provides a sample of the dreamy complexity, flock of scarf-wearing penguins accompanying a toy-like engine through clouds studded with stars. Odone's characters suggest the influence of Sendak as they participate in this dreamy fan...

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