Santa and the Goodnight Train Board Book: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids

by June Sobel, Laura Huliska-Beith (Illustrator)

Overview

Ho-ho-hold on to your teddy bear! The Goodnight Train follows Santa’s sleigh on a magical ride through a winter wonderland in this Christmas sequel to The Goodnight Train and The Goodnight Train Rolls On!

Fa La La! Fa La La!
Chooo! Chooo!
 
Next stop, the North Pole! It’s Christmas Eve, and the Goodnight Train is on a roll, racing mischievous Santa through a winter wonderland. Hear the jingle bells, taste some candy canes, and spy a flying hoof or two on a merry ride to Dreamland—with one magical detour—in this Christmas companion to The Goodnight Train and The Goodnight Train Rolls On! Ho-ho-hold on tight for this unforgettable holiday ride! 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358362661
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Series:	Goodnight Train
Pages:	26
Sales rank:	167,813
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

June Sobel is the talented author of the Goodnight Train books illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith; the Tow Truck Joe series illustrated by Patrick Corrigan; B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC illustrated by Melissa Iwai; and Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC illustrated by Henry Cole. She lives in Westlake Village, California. junesobel.com

Laura Huliska-Beith has illustrated many popular books for children, including The Goodnight Train, The Goodnight Train Rolls On, and Santa and the Goodnight Train by June Sobel, The Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neill, and Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri. laurahuliskabeith.com.

Editorial Reviews

2019-07-28
Not quite the Polar Express….

Sobel's rhyming text fails to deliver a clear premise for the eponymous goodnight train's Christmas Eve progress through the pages, and Huliska-Beith's acrylic paintings embellished with fabric and paper collage don't clarify the storytelling. At the start of the picture book, a bevy of anthropomorphic animals decorates a rather rickety-looking engine, and then human children gather around and pile into train cars that look like beds and cribs. The train follows a track, seemingly in pursuit of Santa's sleigh, but to what end isn't clear. They travel "through a town of gingerbread" and through the woods to find the sleigh blocking the tracks and the reindeer snoozing while, mystifyingly, Santa counts some sheep. Perching the sleigh on the train's cowcatcher, they all proceed to the North Pole, where the "elves all cheer. / Santa's here until next year!" But then the goodnight train just…leaves, "heading home on Christmas Eve." Was this a dream? It definitely wasn't a story with a satisfying beginning, middle, and end. Santa's face is never seen; the human children and elves are diverse.

A Christmas train book that gets derailed by a lacking story arc. (Picture book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews