When the Whistle Blows

By: Fran Cannon Slayton

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Meet a town and a train and a time and a boy - Jimmy Cannon. And meet his father - as strong as a Mallet locomotive - whom Jimmy simply cannot figure out! But who, in a dramatic and unexpected twist, turns out to be so much more than Jimmy ever knew.

In a book that goes to the core of boyhood - its Halloween mischief, its hunting day mystery, its championship football-game surprises, and its nighttime adventures - Fran Cannon Slayton brings her listeners to the breathtaking crossroads of an unforgettable West Virginia railroad town, a family that matters, and adulthood itself.

©2009 Fran Slayton (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Jimmy, his father and the townsfolk have unique, compelling voices that nicely convey the sense of small-town America during and after World War II." (Publishers Weekly)

"This is nostalgia done right....A polished paean to a bygone time and place." (School Library Journal)

"An unassuming masterpiece." (Kirkus Reviews)

captured me

The first couple of chapters, I really wasn't sure. so glad I continued because then I was all in!!
Bonus, perfect narrator!!!