Kids love trains. There are no trains on Mars, but kids there love them all the more for this. Cas and Ori are past this stage of childhood, but they remember.
Excerpt:
“Next came a shuffle beat, brass and woodwinds playing a woo-woo sound, and a smooth voice singing a song about a train and a boogie. This one had been a favorite of Ori’s when she was little. The girls bounced in their seats to the walking bass line.”
— from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
Choo, Choo, Ch’boogie, by Louis Jordan, was a favorite of one of my daughters when she was little. We put it on her child’s MP3 player, and she would play it over and over, singing along. I like the idea of a dad remembering this as he puts together a playlist for his daughters to listen to as they embark on a great and dangerous adventure. I also like the idea of sitting in a rocket waiting for launch, listening to an old-timey song about sitting in a station waiting for a train.
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