It's Funny Where Ben's Train Takes Him

By Robert Burleigh

Ben draws a train that takes him to all sorts of wonderful places before returning him to his own bed. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531301060
• ISBN13: 9780531301067
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, imaginative, perfect for train obsessed kids and their parents

How dare they let this book go out of print! This is one of the best children's train books around, and I thought it was destined to become a bona fide classic. It's a beautiful book to look at, and has a lovely rhythm which the reader will enjoy. It is Funny Where Ben's Train Takes Him, as the tracks run off the drawing pad, past the toy cows on the bedroom floor, out the window and into a tunnel where they are passed by another train carrying a dinosaur, and back safely into a rural landscape of plowed fields, the checkerboard pattern on his bedspread. I can't recommend this gentle and imaginative book too highly.

Wonderful book

My 2 y.o. son LOVES this book. He loves trains and he gets that the little boy in the story is using his imagination to fantasize where the train goes. It's a bedtime favorite and I highly recommend it.

Wait Until They're Older

While my 2-year-old likes the pictures, the concepts of imagination and fantasy are apparently over his head. He clearly doesn't understand the concept, although he does enjoy the clip of the rhyming text. My advice: wait until your child is a little older before trying this book.

Bound to be a classic

We came across this book by chance at the library. My son is 2 years old and loves trains- this story is so sweet, it's a wonderful make believe. He loves it so much I renewed it 2 times before we broke down and had to buy it for him.

An Imaginative Story

My five-year-old son loves this book and asks me to read it over and over to him. (He's even learning to recognize many of the words.) What I think he loves about it is that Ben uses his imagination to create magical worlds with his toys -- just like what five-year olds do.