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  • The Space Train

The Space Train

Author
Maudie Powell-Tuck
Illustrator
Karl James Mountford
Publication Date
October 01, 2019
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
The Space Train
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Description
In a space station many light years from Earth, Jakob lives with Grandma, a robot chicken named Derek, and Tool-Bot, a robot. One day, Jakob finds an enormous rusty, broken rocket in a hangar. "That's not a rusty rocket!" Grandma says excitedly. "It's the Space Train!" She tells him that the Space Train used to travel across the universe "faster than the fastest spaceship." Jakob desperately wants to fix the train. Can they do it?
Publication date
October 01, 2019
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781680101584
Lexile Measure
600
Publisher
Tiger Tales
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
JUV056000 - Juvenile Fiction | Robots
JUV053020 - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction | Space Exploration
Library of Congress categories
Chickens
Grandparent and child
Space stations
Space ships
Passenger trains

ALA/Booklist

It’s a stylized space adventure that any burgeoning astronaut will enjoy. Be sure to peek at the endpapers for a clue as to what becomes of Jakob and his Space Train after the story ends.

Maudie Powell-Tuck
MAUDIE POWELL-TUCK is a children's book editor and the author of several picture books. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, she lives in London, England.

KARL JAMES MOUNTFORD is a German-born illustrator and artist living in England. See more of his work online at karljamesmountford.com and follow him on Instagram at @karljmountford.
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