Subway Ride

by Heather Lynne Miller (Author) Sue Rama (Illustrator)

Subway Ride
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Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
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Take a trip around the world on a subway train. A fantastical journey introduces young readers to subway travel through ten different cities around the globe. Five children pay the fare, enter the gates, and zip down the tunnels of the subway stations. Playful, rhyming text paired with vivid digital collage makes for a fun and unique way for readers to explore travel.

This trip around the world shows readers how travel and cultural connections create community. Back matter includes information about the ten stations mentioned: Atlanta, Cairo, Chicago, London, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.

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Miller's spare rhyming text conveys impressions of subway travel: Clomping, stomping, / shuffling feet / step to the clacking / subway best. Rama's merrily busy digital collages of watercolor art capture the sensations of riding on mass-transit trains. Endnotes give brief information about subway systems in different cities around the world.

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Five enthusiastic children of various ethnicities travel subway systems in different regions of the world. After paying their fares and scrambling through the turnstiles, they step on and off the rail cars and become part of the hustle and bustle of their changing underground locations, which include Cairo, Moscow, London, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo. The concise text, written in flowing rhymes, moves quickly. Rama's colorful digital collage spreads are a perfect match for Miller's word images. The artistic style has an Ezra Jack Keats quality as it brightly chronicles the children's travels. Native language spellings along with English spellings of the destinations are written on the subway tickets found within the artwork. This picture book can be incorporated into preschool/primary units on transportation, used as a springboard to introducing parts of the world, or shared during storytime. For a subway theme, pair it with Anastasia Suen's Subway (Viking, 2004) and Mary Quattlebaum's Underground Train (Doubleday, 1997). With its global perspective, it's a worthy purchase.

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Kirkus

The offbeat idea is deftly handled and should trigger further study.

ALA/Booklist

... Smartly conceived, terrifically executed, this is a perfect book to have on hand when the subject is trains...

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Heather Lynne Miller
Heather Lynn Miller is the author of THIS IS YOUR LIFE CYCLE and LOOK BEHIND: TALES OF ANIMAL ENDS. She lives in Auburn, Indiana.

llustrator Sue Ramá is both a writer and illustrator for children. Largely self-taught as an artist, Sue studied fimmaking and literature and worked as a graphic designer, all of which helped prepare her for the challenge of telling a children's story. Sue lives in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, where she enjoys work, walking, and meditation.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781580891127
Lexile Measure
420
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication date
February 01, 2011
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV030000 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | General
JUV041050 - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Railroads & Trains
Library of Congress categories
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