Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (and Mary Poppins). Transporation books on The Point with Mindy Todd.
Today’s show on books having to do with transportation was pre-recorded, but feel free to send us an email with your favorite books about planes, trains, and automobiles at info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org, and we’ll add them to our list! And if you happen to have a copy of Eighty-Nine Good Novels of the Sea, the Ship and the Sailor compiled by J.K. Lilly, let me know!
MELANIE’S PICKS
Auto Biography: a classic car, an outlaw motorhead, and 57 years of the American dream by Earl Swift
The Hemi in the Barn by Tom Cotter
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
The Ice Pilots by Michael Vlessides
Birdmen: the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies by Lawrence Goldstone
Boston Below by Joseph R. Votano and Karen E. Hosking
Life is a Wheel: love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America by Bruce Weber
Kids:
Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney
National Geographic Kids Ultimate Globetrotting World Atlas by National Geographic Kids
The Transcontinental Railroad by John Perritano
Henry Ford: Father of the Auto Industry by Josh Gregory
JILL’s PICKS
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
Falling Upwards: how we took to the air by Richard Holmes
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere
Pan American Clippers: the golden age of flying boats by James Trautman
Grand Central: how a train station transformed America by Sam Roberts
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America’s first subway by Doug Most
Art of the Classic Car by Peter Bodensteiner, Photography by Peter Harholdt
Wheels of Change: how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way) by Sue Macy
Sail Away: stories of escaping to sea edited by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker
Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die: sailing experts share the world’s greatest destinations by Chris Santella
Wanderlust: a history of walking by Rebecca Solnit
Agatha Christie novels:
Murder on the Orient Express, 4:50 From Paddington, The Mystery of the Blue Train
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith which was made into a terrific film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Picture Books
Go, Dog. Go! By P.D. Eastman
Night Light by Nicholas Blechman
Everything Goes in the Air by Brian Biggs
Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton and Tom Lichtenheld