Choo Choo Clickety-Clack!

Margaret Mayo. Carolrhoda Books, $15.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-57505-819-1

After interactively exploring ambulances, police cars and more in Emergency!, Margaret Mayo and artist Alex Ayliffe take on trains, planes, boats and other modes of transport for the paper-over-board Choo Choo Clickety-Clack! Sound effects galore will have youngsters chiming in (bikes go ""Zippety-Zip!""; cable cars go ""Shlummp! Whurrrr!""). .

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