SuitabookThe Little Red Caboose
Marian Potter
- Reading
- Pause at the caboose’s wish to be the engine, then return to it after the train is safe. This can help a child notice what changes in the caboose’s situation.
- Themes
- Being valued for a contribution: The caboose feels overlooked because it comes last, then helps keep the train from sliding backwards. The children later wave most to it. The change in the children’s response presents the caboose’s contribution as worthy of recognition.
- Worth knowing
- The train appears at risk of sliding backwards on a mountain.