Marsha Diane Arnold’s Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team: The World’s Largest Steam Engine Roards Back to Life! (9781534113145, $18.99) reaches ages 4-8 with a lovely story of the 1940s and a steam-powered locomotive that ws active through 1959, and then became a train museum fixture in California.

Kids who love trains will relish the lively history, colorful illustrations by Adam Gustavson, and details of train restoration and recovery which follow how the Big Boys were not only part of the past, but are now part of present-day rail history.

Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team will reach a wide audience thanks to especially vivid connections between past and present train activity and history and the efforts of steam train preservationists to keep the engines running, all depicted in this wonderful exploration designed for maximum young reader interest.