Freight train (original title: Freight Train)

Description

1979 Caldecott Honor Award winner
A picture book using graphic techniques that embody a variety of primary colors and a lively sense of speed.
“A picture book is a book that tells a story only through pictures. “If it needs too many words to tell a story, it’s no longer a picture book.” – Donald Cruz

Freight Train, one of Donald Cruz's representative works that makes it easy for readers to understand the content with a bold and cool composition and short, simple writing, received rave reviews for its sophisticated expression techniques when it was published in 1978, and put Donald Cruz in the ranks of picture book writers. It's a work of art. Intense colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are added to children's favorite train ride, creating a strong impression through vivid color contrast. Another feature is that objects are expressed in the simplest way using circles and straight lines.
The seemingly drab freight train runs cheerfully in a variety of pretty colors. We pass through tunnels, through cities, and across railroad bridges. Run at night, run during the day, run and run and run. However, it is left to the reader's imagination as to when the non-stop freight train will stop.
Additionally, the uses of each freight train are interestingly explained. The story of how various trains, including freight cars with crew members, freight cars loaded with oil, freight cars loaded with gravel, livestock, coal, fertilizer, coal and water, are connected tail to tail to form one long train, shows one aspect of modern culture through an object. Let me take a look. Today, with high-speed trains running, children will take a trip back in time as they see the charming and colorful freight train created by Donald Cruz.