One day when Tootle is driving the railroad he hops off the tracks to play in the meadow but sees red flags everywhere in the grasses and he is upset due to having to stop at red flags trains hate nothing more than stopping. Not wanting to take away the offer of being a flyer Bill decides a plan with the mayor to put Tootle back on the tracks. In the days that follow Tootle becomes fond of playing in the meadow and not staying on the tracks and Bill quickly discovers what Tootle has been doing.
Tootle goes faster but loses his race lead to the horse when he turns a curve so he gets off the tracks and ties with the horse. One day when Tootle is practicing the rule a horse challenges him to a race to the river. Most important, however, is that he must stay on the rails no matter what.Bill his good friend and teacher tells Tootle that trains are not professional unless they get 100 A+ on staying on the rails no mater what. His schoolwork involves such tasks as stopping at red flags and pulling a dining car without spilling the soup. He died in 1978.The protagonist is Tootle, a baby locomotive who is attending train school, hoping to grow up to be the Flyer on the New York-Chicago route. He brought to life many classic and beloved LGB characters including Tootle, the Little Red Caboose, and Scuffy the Tugboat. Tibor Gergely, who was born in Hungary in 1900 and emigrated to the US in 1939, was one of the most prolific of the early Little Golden Books illustrators. Crampton was born in New York in 1909, and received her teaching credentials from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
But he must learn to stay on the tracks no matter what-if he ever hopes to achieve his dream of being a Flyer between New York and Chicago! About the Author Gertrude Crampton wrote the classic Little Golden Books Tootle (published in 1945) and Scuffy the Tugboat (published in 1946), which are two of the bestselling English-language hardcover childrens books of all time. Book Synopsis In this classic Little Golden Book from 1945, Tootle is a young locomotive who loves to chase butterflies through the meadow. About the Book Tootle, a young train in training, begins leaving the tracks to cavort in the meadow until engineer Bill figures out a way to lure him back.
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