{"product_id":"subway-ride-isbn-9781580891127","title":"Subway Ride","description":"Take a trip around the world on a subway train. A fantastical journey introduces young readers to subway travel through ten different cities around the globe. Five children pay the fare, enter the gates, and zip down the tunnels of the subway stations. Playful, rhyming text paired with vivid digital collage makes for a fun and unique way for readers to explore travel.  This trip around the world shows readers how travel and cultural connections create community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Back matter includes information about the ten stations mentioned: Atlanta, Cairo, Chicago, London, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.Take a ride on subway trains all around the world. Beginning in Cairo, a  multicultural group of children rides the trains in ten cities,  zigzagging from stop to stop around the globe. The brief text is in  serviceable near-verse (\"Rumbling, roaring-\/ blurring speed. \/ Silver  bullet. \/Rushing breeze\"), but barely registers against Rama's vibrant  digital collages of watercolor art. Vivid colors and blurred lines evoke  a bustling cheer. Cleverly composed to suggest both depth and action,  the pictures tell most of the story: Atlanta's dark tunnels, Chicago's  El (a slight deviation from the underground theme), jazz combos in the  Stockholm stations and so on, an iconic ticket indicating from place to  place where readers and riders are. The book ends with crisp thumbnail  portraits of the subways in the cities, which also include London,  Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. The offbeat  idea is deftly handled and should trigger further study.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiller's spare rhyming text conveys impressions of subway travel:  \"Clomping, stomping, \/ shuffling feet \/ step to the clacking \/ subway  best.\" Rama's merrily busy digital collages of watercolor art capture  the sensations of riding on mass-transit trains. Endnotes give brief  information about subway systems in different cities around the world.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive enthusiastic children of various ethnicities travel subway systems  in different regions of the world. After paying their fares and  scrambling through the turnstiles, they step on and off the rail cars  and become part of the hustle and bustle of their changing underground  locations, which include Cairo, Moscow, London, New York City,  Washington, D.C., and Tokyo. The concise text, written in flowing  rhymes, moves quickly. Rama's colorful digital collage spreads are a  perfect match for Miller's word images. The artistic style has an Ezra  Jack Keats quality as it brightly chronicles the children's travels.  Native language spellings along with English spellings of the  destinations are written on the subway tickets found within the artwork.  This picture book can be incorporated into preschool\/primary units on  transportation, used as a springboard to introducing parts of the world,  or shared during storytime. For a subway theme, pair it with Anastasia  Suen's \u003ci\u003eSubway\u003c\/i\u003e (Viking, 2004) and Mary Quattlebaum's \u003ci\u003eUnderground Train\u003c\/i\u003e (Doubleday, 1997). With its global perspective, it's a worthy purchase.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot every child lives in a city with a subway system. Those who do will  appreciate this lively re-creation of the train-riding experience, while  those who don't will get a feel for what it's like to ride underground.  Using brisk rhymes and digitally enhanced watercolors that shimmer and  shake, the book follows five children as they make their way through  subway stations around the world. Small metro tickets identify the city  in each spread, but sometimes so do the particulars of the scene:  hieroglyphics on the walls in Cairo; the Underground symbol in London;  the outside El in Chicago. Whatever the location, the generalities are  the same; waiting, rushing, buskers, rumbles, and roars. Smartly  conceived, terrifically executed, this is a perfect book to have on hand  when the subject is trains. An afterword goes into more detail about  the subways in the features cities.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather Lynn Miller \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of THIS IS YOUR LIFE CYCLE and LOOK BEHIND: TALES OF ANIMAL ENDS. She lives in Auburn, Indiana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ellustrator \u003cb\u003eSue Ramá \u003c\/b\u003eis both a writer and illustrator for children.  Largely self-taught as an artist, Sue studied fimmaking and literature  and worked as a graphic designer, all of which helped prepare her for  the challenge of telling a children's story. Sue lives in East Windsor  Hill, Connecticut, where she enjoys work, walking, and meditation.Step down below\u003cbr\u003eto see the world.\u003cbr\u003eNow off we go!","brand":"Charlesbridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305106854117,"sku":"NP9781580891127","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781580891127.jpg?v=1767737481","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/subway-ride-isbn-9781580891127","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}