Hamish Takes the Train

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Hamish Takes the Train

Daisy Hirst

(Two Hoots)

 Hamish Takes the Train after watching the journeys along the tracks with Noreen. The trains are travelling to the city. Yet while Hamish is excited to travel on a train, Noreen wants to stay at home. Therefore, a lone adventurer follows the train tracks to the station, and the ‘railway full of old trains and rusting junk‘. There’s a little kaboose that reminds him of home, further, in which Christov lies ill. He needs somebody to drive a crane. Suddenly, Hamish’s journey is becoming bigger! It seems he will need to travel into the city ‘in Christov’s hat and jacket’ carrying ‘Christov’s ticket’. Furthermore he will have to get a deal for boots and jacket that fit so that he can take on Christov’s special job!

What will Hamish see from the crane? Who will he meet? Furthermore, should he receive wages for his work, might he be tempted to return with pizza for Christov, and thereafter, Noreen?

While Hamish Takes the Train is a wonderful picture book, it is also a story of adventure, discovery, new friends and appreciating differences. Bookwagon loves Daisy Hirst’s Alphonse, There’s Mud on the Ceiling! Therefore, we’re delighted to find, read, love and recommend this treasured story by the same picture book maker.