SLEEP TRAIN

A perfectly pitched bedtime story and counting book for sleepy train lovers, illustrated in dramatic 3D sculptures.

A little boy climbs into bed with a book and starts counting the train cars in it, between the engine and caboose. "Ten sleepy cars going clickety-clack," reads the refrain. But as the boy counts cars and gets sleepier and sleepier, his room looks more and more like one of the train cars from his book--the sleeping car, of course.

Rhythmically told by the author of the Froggy books, Sleep Train is also stunning to look at. 3D illustrator, Lauren Eldridge, has sculpted an entire train full of intricate details. Part bedtime story, part counting book, part children's fantasy, Sleep Train is a magical ride to dreamland.

A bedtime story that counts trains instead of sheep. The lyrical language expertly lulls the listener to sleepiness. A book that truly feels magical as a boy's room is transformed from his bedroom into the sleeping car of a real train. Counting train cars (twice!) is the bonus in this bedtime story.

Jonathan London is a poet, an adventurer, and the author of twenty-eight books about Froggy, as well as many other picture books and novels. The parents of two sons, he and his wife live in northern California.

Lauren Eldridge grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and studied landscape architecture, before turning her hands to model making. She now lives with her husband, two daughters, and their "beast" of a dog in Madison, Wisconsin.