Record details

• ISBN: 0395389496
• ISBN: 9780395389492
• Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm + 1 audio disc (16:40 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
• Edition: Twentieth-fifth anniversary ed.
• Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2010], 2000.
• Copyright: ©1985

Content descriptions

General Note:

Book originally published in 1985.

Includes a keepsake ornament.

Accompanying CD produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., ℗2000.

Includes a note from the author on the back dust jacket flap.

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."

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Music by Michael Moss.

Participant or Performer Note:

Read by Liam Neeson.

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

CD recorded at Soundscape, Boston, MA.

Awards Note:

Caldecott Medal Winner, 1986.

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Subject:

North Pole > Juvenile fiction.
Santa Claus (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Christmas stories.
Railroad trains > Juvenile fiction.
Passenger trains > Juvenile fiction.
Railroad stories.
North Pole > Fiction.
Santa Claus > Fiction.
Christmas > Fiction.

Genre:

Children's audiobooks.
Audiobooks.

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• Caldecott Medal.