The story is about a girl traveling from her own living city to her grandmother's place in countryside. It seems a long trip. From the perspectives of the little girl she has big curiosity about the entire world. She wants to travel everywhere in the world when she is big. She don't understand that why her mother and grandmother don't agree with that. The little girl has positive attitude and adventurous spirit to look around the world. Everything is possible. It seems that nothing can stop the girl's desire and curiosity about the world. It is very inspiriting to me. The cover of book capture my eyes when I saw this book first time. It is clear and simple.The neon green train with orange door stands out in each illustrations of black ink drawings on white background. Despite questioning whether the adult themes of this book (travel, finding yourself in the world) would work with reading to kids, I absolutely adored the story and illustrations of a little girl who travels from her house in the city to her grandmother's house in the country and all the things she sees out the window of her train car. At first they are typical "daily life" sorts of things, but as she begins dreaming and longing to see the world, suddenly the things she sees out her window are much more fantastical. Albertine's simple line illustrations with the train's pop of color on each page spread is quite striking and lends itself to several read-throughs to take in all of the detail. I'm not usually someone who likes to re-read books, but as soon as I finished my first read-through I knew I'd have to read it again and again to really take in the story and illustrations.
Captures the power of innocence. Beautifully, simply, illustrated.
—cogamma31
Fun illustrations, but not sure a kid would get the point
—gunny2
Adored this book. Both the text and the illustrations.
—firebacon
Loved the line drawings, the text was depressing.
—ShadowAngel96
Nothing is impossible to a child.
—sarahr144
