Books with title Ghost Train

We have all been victims of goading and intimidation at some points in our lives. People that goad and intimidate are not the big people they try to appear to be-it's often a front/false. Lets join our gang Jack, Mary, Tiny Tim, Maitreya, Mitzi and reluctant hero Chris, as he is taunted into taking a train journey of a different sort-a Ghost Train journey…….

A re-issue of Paul Yee and Harvey Chan’s classic picture book Ghost Train, published in celebration of Groundwood’s 35th anniversary. The enhanced epub version includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Molly Johnson.The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway.This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s.Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed.Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born.Ghostly, magical and yet redeeming, this tale is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan.

A story of a fantasy tales starting to weave it's magical threads into a grandchild's life.Grammy had so many tales to share but this one was proving to be very real, with two toots of a trains whistle, owl feathers floating under the front door and a rainbow rose being left on the porch the night before. Grammy had so many friends "In the Vales", but this special friend that came to visit that night may actually be still alive, but how?A cute story of new romance "In the Vales" when the Willunga train line to Adelaide S.A. still existed.A story written for a tall person t share to a wee person. Enjoy Blessings Grandmother Christine