Boys + Train Books

Jack is obsessed with a new-to-him train book.  It is full of photographs of real, actual trains - engines, cars, train yards, tunnels, tracks, and everything else imaginable.  He brings it in the car with him and he chooses it when I tell him to pick a book to read while the rest of the kids finish getting ready for bed.  He bought it with his own money and he absolutely loves it.  But this book is unlike any other train book Jack has read.  It's 3 inches thick and contains lots of big words. The title is The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways.

A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to the book sale at the Provo Library, where all of the books were $1 or less.  They brought their own money, and Jack's only wish was to find a book about trains.  After searching the boxes and boxes of children's books, we began looking through the boxes and boxes and boxes of adult books looking for a book about trains.  Any book.  Shouldn't be too hard, right?  Well, when we were about to give up, Ben finally spotted this little gem, and Jack happily bought it for $1, and boy, was it a Dollar well spent.  Jack has even drawn a picture of the Three Deck Car Transporter he's looking at in the photo below and asked me to deliver his drawing to Santa because that's what he wants for Christmas.

But to make something really great even better, I realized something that made me chuckle last night.  Do you want to know what book Jack's Daddy is currently engrossed in?

A book about the building of the transcontinental railroad.  I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.