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About the Author
Marian Potter wrote the classic Little Golden Book The Little Red Caboose, published in 1953. It has never been out of print.Tibor Gergely was born in Hungary in 1900 and emigrated to the US in 1939. He went on to become one of the most prolific early illustrators of Little Golden Books. His classics include Tootle, The Little Red Caboose, and Scuffy the Tugboat. He died in 1978.
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Product details
Age Range: 2 - 5 years
Grade Level: 1 - Kindergarten
Series: Little Golden Book
Hardcover: 24 pages
Publisher: Golden Books; 1 edition (March 27, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307021521
ISBN-13: 978-0307021526
Product Dimensions:
6.6 x 0.2 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
260 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#4,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This was my favorite book as a child and I wanted to share it with my 10-month-old son. It's a great story for kids and every illustration is unique with many different and interesting aspects. The overall material quality, however; is poor. I don't remember that my childhood book was as poorly-made as this one. The trademark gold foil spine is very thin and was peeling off when it arrived. The almost transparently thin pages protrude outside the cheap cardboard covers and the print on some pages is so offset that it almost looks as if the image was meant to be seen through 3D glasses. It's disappointing that an American treasure like Little Golden Books has become a victim of such low-grade manufacturing.
I was read the 1930 edition as a child (in the early 50's) and that is the edition I thought I was getting. I researched the difference in the 1954 edition as well as the other newer editions. Even though a few words from the 1930 edition may be 'politically incorrect' now and it was black and white, It is still my favorite. But if you are looking for colored graphics and a somewhat changed story I guess this book maybe for you.
I can't give it any more than 3 stars due to the poor quality of the book. I had requested a replacement when the book arrived with the binding peeling a bit and the front and back covers were cut slightly smaller than the pages inside so the pages actually stick out. Plus, with the way the book is bind, the pages were difficult to turn because you're not able to open the book fully. I thought I just happened to have received a manufacturer's defect.The replacement arrived and it was the same, except the binding wasn't peeling. This is one book I should have just purchased as an e-Book since Random House does not seem to want to bother putting much effort into the paper version.
My almost-2-year-old son asks for this over and over. He calls it "aboose". I was excited that he liked it because I remember my mom reading it to me and my younger siblings as a kid. My son always puts his hands up in the air and says "yay!" for the caboose on the second-to-last page; it's very cute. I also love how much detail goes into each illustration. So many new books today have very minimal illustration, but this book has so much, it's easy to point out new and different things each time we go through it. We especially love all the different animals on each page, so he is learning animals and animal sounds as well as a host of other vocabulary words. Glad I bought it! :)
The original edition of The Little Red Caboose was written and illustrated for Golden Books, which at the time was a children's program started by Simon and Schuster, the original copyright holder. Simon and Schuster is the name that appears on the title page, below those of the author, Marian Potter, and artist, Tibor Gergely, on the edition published and printed in 1953. At that time, Western Printing Company was the lithographer and printer, and another partner, Artists and Writers Guild, Inc. was also mentioned on the copyright page. All were in New York, except for Western Printing, which was in Racine, Wisconsin. In later printings we see that Simon and Schuster apparently spun off Golden Books to Western, which had become Western Publishing, still in Racine, while Golden Books remained in New York. The back cover (original edition) has pictures of other books for young people by Simon and Schuster, not the cartoon characters associated with Golden Books.Whew! The reason I mention all of this is because this review is for the first edition of The Little Red Caboose. It's hard to identify these if you do not know what to look for. Western Publishing was not the original copyright holder in 1953.Now for the book itself. Anyone who is familiar with children's books from the 1950s will be familiar with the artwork of Tibor Gergely, who painted worlds behind the story, worlds that young, curious eyes can never get enough of. Every aspect of life you can think of that might be seen from the railroad tracks of the book's subject, a caboose on a freight train, is visible through the course of the story in Gergely's paintings. Cityscapes, country life, school busses, fruit stands, gas stations, boats, circuses and their animals, Native American tribes with tepees, and people on horseback, in cars, on bicycles, hiking, climbing, paddling, flying kites, hay wagons, going to school, fishing, and much more, are all represented on the pages. Many pages are filled with animals instead of people. But the center of attraction in this story is the freight train.The freight trains of the 1940s and early 1950s were quite different from what we see today. They were pulled by giant, steel locomotives puffing clouds of steam and smoke, and the watch-works of rods, pistons, levers, wheels, and counterweights were all visible, all moving in incredible synchrony, seeming alive and friendly at slow speeds and quite terrifying at high speeds. This was the lore of the steam locomotive, which holds the people's attention and imagination at it passes. the freight cars each had their own appeal, too. Colorful and interestingly shaped, their contents dictated their form, pregnant with stories about the industries that depended on them. But the last car on the train was always the little red caboose, and by the time it came along people were turning away, going about their day, or ready to get on across the road. The caboose was sad, because nobody seemed to stay to say hello to it. We all feel that way from time to time; ignored, rejected, lonely and sad, and rare is the child who doesn't know those feelings first-hand.This is the story of what happened one day when the mountain was too great, the locomotive failed, and the little red caboose saved the train until help could come. The help came in the form of two big black locomotives that steamed up from behind and helped push the train over the mountains. That's exactly the way real railroads work: in mountainous regions they [still, even today] have helper locomotives that push the train over the top, then they part ways. The helpers go back to the bottom and wait for the next train. This story looks very much like the railroads of Pennsylvania, whose namesake railroad had massive engines that kept the trains moving briskly over the Allegheny summit at Gallitzin.So, there's a lot of interesting knowledge for young eyes to glean from the pages of this book. The book functions as a subconscious teacher about the world; that's what you get from Tibor Gergely's paintings while the story itself goes by in parallel, but not necessarily dominating the scene. Oh, the climactical moments are there in the paintings, too. You see the astonishment in the faces of the watchers, and somehow you see fear in the train and determination in the little red caboose. Such is the Gergely's magic, bringing inanimate objects to life without the need for faces and anthropomorphizing, but instead with implied action. Never mind that the world of 1953 looked different. It's still a world we recognize, and we relate to everything in it, because the activities and actions are familiar.Thus as we see the caboose hard at work, we instinctively know what it's doing as the story goes:"And he slammed on his brakes.And he held tight to the tracks.And he kept that trainfrom sliding down the mountain."And in the background we see the big engines coming up the mountain to take over from the struggling caboose still holding the train tightly to the rails. The Caboose is now a hero, and the people (and animals) stay and wave when it passes.It was one of my favorites as a child, and when I read it to children who are close enough to see the pictures, they love it, too. The story is over 60 years old, and yet it's as fresh as the day Simon and Schuster decided to create a line of children's books, with guidance from Columbia University, and called it Golden Books.
Another in a long line of "Little Golden Book" series for young children. This was bought as a gift and we hope it provides a good base for young ones who first need pictures to understand the story and a willing parent to read to them, and then later a great tool for them as they too learn to read. Well laid out, easy to read and photos are wonderful. I had this book as a child and loved it, so glad to see that it remains a classic even in today's technology driven world.
When I ordered an embroidered Christmas stocking with a red train on it for my grandson, I knew I had to get this classic golden book to go along. It's a story I remember from my own childhood. I enjoyed reading it to my daughter and can't wait to read it to my grandson. What little boy doesn't love trains?
This book is getting a lot of action around here. It's definitely a favorite. The story is fun to read to them, but the illustrations are even more fun to talk about. I enjoy it as much as my toddler grandchildren.
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