Again, I love the book. Maybe I just need to always read books of this level.
The story is so vivid. I can see these children on this railroad track and I can hear the voices of excitement. I can just imagine how their hearts are beating at first with the feelings of excitement and the knowing of doing something so risky. Next, I can hear their hearts beating because of the fear of being on the track with a train heading straight for them with no place to go. I can hear the feet running, the hearts beating, and yet not a spoken word followed this most frightening experience. I also noticed not one child blamed the other for this adventure. The illustrations would be enough to tell this story. It could almost be a wordless picture book and the story would be told. I read this to my class as I always do.
