By Mick Jackson (author) , Baljinder Kaur (illustrator)
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There is a train which has beds in their own small cabins so that you can sleep while the train rolls through the night. I went on one, not long ago…
Just as it's starting to get dark, a little girl and her family board the sleeper train - they'll travel all through the night, and reach their destination in the morning. But as the train rocks from side to side, the little girl can't sleep. It's all too exciting! So, instead, she travels through her memory to all the different places she has slept - from her room at home, to a tent in the wild, to Mum's old room at Grandma and Grandad's house... But will that help her to drift off?
Gloriously illustrated in rich colours throughout, this captivating bedtime story will take readers on a journey through the vast Indian countryside, and carry them straight on to dreamland.
"A lilting cultural touchstone great for bedtime." Booklist
Mick Jackson is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter from Lancashire, UK, now living in Brighton. He studied drama and then completed the Creative Writing MA course at the University of East Anglia where his tutors were Malcolm Bradbury, Rose Tremain and Michele Roberts. Mick’s first novel, The Underground Man , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and won The Royal Society of Authors’ First Novel Award. He has since published several novels and short story collections, as well as writing and directing screenplays and documentaries. He has recently started writing for children and While You’re Sleeping is his first book for this younger audience.
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There is a train which has beds in their own small cabins so that you can sleep while the train rolls through the night. I went on one, not long ago…Just as it's starting to get dark, a little girl and her family board the sleeper train - they'll travel all through the night, and reach their destination in the morning.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Sleeper Train and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-4 years old
The Sleeper Train features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, Stories about Family and Friends, Bedtime Stories for Children, Picture storybooks, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
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The Sleeper Train was written by Mick Jackson and published by Walker Books Ltd an imprint of Walker Books
The Sleeper Train has 32 pages
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