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Locomotive

Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Floca, Brian
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2013]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Locomotives > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile nonfiction. Railroads > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile nonfiction. Caldecott medal book.
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Summary:	Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
Item Description:	"A Richard Jackson Book."
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781416994152 (hardcover) 1416994157 (hardcover) 9781442485228 (ebook) 1442485221 (ebook)
Author Notes:	Brian Floca was born and raised in Temple, Texas. He graduated from Brown University and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal. He has also written and illustrated Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, The Racecar Alphabet, and Five Trucks. He is the illustrator of the Poppy Stories series, by Avi; Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels; and Lynne Cox's forthcoming Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. His books have received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards, an Orbis Pictus Award, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have twice been selected for The New York Times' annual 10 Best Illustrated Books list. (Bowker Author Biography)