I Dream of Trains

Papa saysit's the sound of leavingthat speaks to my soul...The poignant words of two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson and striking images from fine artist Loren Long join forces in this heartbreaking yet uplifting picture book about a boy, his love for trains, and his adulation of one legendary engineer.It's the story of a hero lost and a hero discovered, of a dream crushed then reawakened, but mostly it is a story of the force that sustains the human spirit -- hope.

Angela Johnson received her first major literary prize in 1991, when her second picture book When I Am Old with You was named a Coretta Scott King Honor book. Since that time, she has gone on to win numerous accolades, including Coretta Scott King Awards for the novels Heaven and Toning the Sweep; and a second Coretta Scott King Honor for The Other Side: Shorter Poems. She lives in Kent, Ohio.