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A hide-and-seek game in a tunnel, an echo that sneezes, and a little train who finds the words to ask her friend to stay. Three short books, free to read and hear tonight.
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Button tries to find Baritone in a wide tunnel, but his enormous voice keeps giving him away. Then Button closes her eyes and declares herself invisible.
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“At the wide tunnel, two tracks ran side by side. Button, a short, round yellow steam engine,…”
Tangerine wishes for a grand echo. A sneeze gives Cobalt’s pretend answer away, and the two engines trade whistles—with a tiny ‘pip’ for the biggest call.
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“In the empty train shed, Tangerine stood on one track and Cobalt on the parallel one. Tanger…”
Nell keeps asking Walter to check her parking place as the shed lamps dim. When she names her worry about being alone, Walter stays beside her until morning.
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“The shed lamps turned low. Nell rolled into her parking place and stopped beside the little…”
Choosing tonight’s book
Button and Baritone’s hiding game, for about four, and Tangerine and Cobalt’s echo game, for older listeners, both end in giggles. Nell and Walter’s story, for about six, is the quiet one: two engines resting side by side until morning.
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