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Jason Carter Eaton

Author of How to Train a Train

7 Works 654 Members 21 Reviews

Works by Jason Carter Eaton

How to Train a Train (2013) 416 copies
The Facttracker (2008) 59 copies
How to Track a Truck (2016) 48 copies
The Catawampus Cat (2017) 44 copies
Pop! (2018) 24 copies
Bad Brows (2020) 11 copies

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Birthdate
20th century
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA
Westchester, New York, USA
Education
Emory University
Short biography
[excerpted from author's website]
Jason Carter Eaton is, first and foremost, a carbon-based mammal. But also an award-winning children's book author and screenwriter!

But that's not all! He's also a dad, a son, a husband, a creative writing teacher, a gardener, an avid comic book reader, a barbarian, a decent cook, an excellent tennis partner, a weisenheimer, a showboater, a chocolate lover, a sucker for a good bowl of borscht (cold please), a huge fan of Douglas Adams, and the proud owner of a great, big, fuzzy golden retriever named Presto.

His books have won a host of awards and been translated into numerous languages. Jason has written for countless odd venues, including McSweeney's, BBC Radio, Cracked Magazine, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network, and MGM, where he adapted his novel The Facttracker into a doomed live-action movie. Jason also wrote the story for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, though that was entirely by accident.

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Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
 
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fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
This book is awesome.
Especially this part:


I love those giant fairy wings.
Now I want a train of my very own! I think I'd call it Chester. Or Trainsley.
 
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katebrarian | 9 other reviews | Jul 28, 2020 |
: A boy refuses to clean up the messes he leaves in his house, which attracts all kinds of pests, like ants, mice, and finally… barbarians. The barbarians keep on coming and making a mess of the place, when the boy finally realizes the only way to get rid of them is to clean up the whole house. After cleaning everything up, all the barbarians leave and he promises to always clean up after himself.
 
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LivCerna | 3 other reviews | Apr 10, 2018 |
This book will make sure you know everything there is to know if you want a pet train. It makes you use your imagination to find ways to catch trains and sucker them in to coming home with you. The book compares a train to a dog with the different things it may like, and the different tricks you can teach it to do. At the end of the book, the author makes sure he gives you a paragraph explaining that some of the things in the book are actually not safe to do, but they are in the book so your imagination can paint a picture for you.… (more)
 
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Gsmith0930 | 9 other reviews | Dec 2, 2017 |

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Statistics

Works
7
Members
654
Popularity
#38,587
Rating
3.9
Reviews
21
ISBNs
27
Languages
1

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