Record details

• ISBN: 0395389496
• ISBN: 9780395389492
• Physical Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
• Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Sample text for The Polar Express / written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. "On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed. I did not rustle the sheets. I breathed slowly and silently. I was listening for a sound -- a sound a friend had told me I'd never hear -- the ringing bells of Santa's sleigh. 'There is no Santa, ' my friend had insisted, but I knew he was wrong. Late that night I did hear sounds, though not of ringing bells. From outside came the sounds of hissing steam and squeaking metal. I looked through my window and saw a train standing perfectly still in from of my house."

Participant or Performer Note:

Narrated by Liam Neeson ; music by Michael Moss.

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader 3.8.

Reading Counts! 4.9.

Awards Note:

Caldecott Medal, 1986.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

North Pole > Fiction.
Santa Claus > Fiction.
Christmas > Fiction.
Santa Claus.
Christmas stories.
Belief and doubt > Juvenile fiction.
Passenger trains > Juvenile fiction.
Children > Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction.
Arctic Ocean > North Pole.

Genre:

Caldecott Medal Winner > 1986.
Fiction.