Pete the Cat's Train Trip
(I Can Read! My First: Shared Reading)

Author

James Dean

Illustrator

James Dean

Publication Date

June 19, 2015

Genre / Grade Band

Fiction / K − 1^st

Pete the Cat's Train Trip (I Can Read! My First: Shared Reading)

Paperback

Prebound-Sewn

Hardcover

Description

"Pete can't wait to visit Grandma, especially because he gets to take a train ride to see her. The conductor gives Pete a tour of the train, and Pete gets to see the engine and honk the horn. Pete even makes new friends and plays games on board"--Amazon.com.

Publication date

June 20, 2015

Classification

Fiction

Page Count

ISBN-13

9780062303868

Lexile Measure

460

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

HarperCollins

Series

I Can Read! My First: Shared Reading

BISAC categories

Library of Congress categories

Cats
Railroad trains
Pete
Railroad travel

School Library Journal

K-GR 1—Cool dude Pete the Cat is now driving a yellow school bus and picking up kitties along his route. After covering the traditional lines about horns that go "beep, beep, beep" and wipers that go "swish, swish, swish," this book offers up a surprise conclusion. Pete picks up one lone dog and a few pages later, the pooch is seen driving the bus, while Pete the Cat croons from the rooftop, "Let's Rock Out!" The colorful yellow and blue artwork rendered in the artist's familiar pen-and-ink and watercolor will remind fans of the other Pete books, with their hero sporting that deadpan stare. If your library doesn't already have too many "Wheels on the Bus" clones, Pete the Cat's version is cool.—Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA