Grandfather's Trolley

by Bruce McMillan

Using hand-tinted photographs, a popular photo-illustrator takes young readers on a trip back to the early 1900s where a little girl goes for a ride in her grandfather's trolley car. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564026337
• ISBN13: 9781564026330
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.3" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Focusing on loving relationship...

between a granddaughter and grandfather. This is a simple story of a granddaughter who takes a ride on the trolley in which her grandfather is the trolley car operator. Beautiful images of the trolley ride. These were black and white photographs which had then been toned brown and then painted over with oil paints. There is a lovely blurred soft focus look to them. The little girl enjoys the ride and loves riding the trolley but most of all she loves spending time with her grandfather. Just a simple story about the ride and their relationship. Throughout the book there are sound-words such as clackety-clack and Ding gong! Ding gong! Anyone who has ridden a trolley is familiar with these sounds and will enjoy the book.This book in no way is focused on actual trolleys, facts about trolleys, history of trolleys, etc. If you are a trolley buff you may be interested to know that the trolley pictured ran in New Haven, CT and bears the sign "Lighthouse via Forbes Ave". The car was built by J.M. Jones Sons in 1905 and is Connecticut Trolley 838. The author notes that the photographs were taken at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine and that this trolley may be ridden there even today. The author clearly loves trolleys and mentions that his own grandfather was a trolley car operator.I love the inclusion of trolleys in a beautiful picture book for young children and especially like to see a loving family relationship between grandfather and granddaughter. Applause for not making the child male which would have been more of the usual sexist pairing of boys with trains and trolleys.