Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb

by Nancy Farmer

Book Overview

The exciting story of a famous train disaster, as told by a two-time Newbery Honor authorIn the final years of the nineteenth century, the engineer of the mighty locomotive depends on the fireman to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803719299
• ISBN13: 9780803719293
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Phyllis Fogelman Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This book sings with the cadence of the South and tells a wonderful story in spite of it's dramatic and TRAGIC end. My three year old loves it and has become one of our most requested stories.

Great Train Book

A great book that mixes the story of a legendary folk hero and a supernatural battle between heaven and hell. Nancy Farmer is a great writer and the oil paintings bring the story to life.

What a treasure

I came upon this book just browsing in a childrens book store. I love how the story hints at a supernatural struggle in the midst of a folk story about the early days of railroad. Beautifully written and the pictures are gorgeous.