Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the world of The Dark Tower Hardcover – Picture Book, November 22, 2016

Sweet story, but wow are the illustrations creepy. I understand that was the intended effect, so bravo!

Great gift for any The Dark Tower fan!The recipient looked very confused and said "Oh my! I know this book!!! HOW do YOU know this book!?," started smiling and absolutely loved it! 💕It's unsettling, the pictures evoke discomfort, the story unease. It's a cautionary tale, not a typical children's book.

Don't even think about it...just buy it! Fantastic illustrations that are just as depicted in The Waste Lands.And don't forget to get The Little Sisters of Eluria and Wind Through the Keyhole so that your Dark Tower collection is complete!

Good book. King really ties things together

my dad has a lot of stephen king books, he didnt have this one,he was ecstatic to receive it

So my girlfriend is a huge Steven King fan and has all of his books. We were reading The Dark Tower series together (me reading it for the first time) and they refer to this book in one of them. After seeing that VSauce mentioned this book actually being available on youtube, I decided it'd be a perfect addition to her collection since I knew that she didn't even know it existed. She absolutely loved it, it perfectly depicts the description of everything written in the original book it was referenced in, and is a perfect addition to any Steven King fans collection!

This is a difficult review for me. Stephen King is my favorite author, and I've often said that if he wrote a menu, I would read it. This truly *is* a childen's book, yet it is also Stephen King. I love the tie-in to his Dark Tower series, and have been thinking of how much a child who reads this will enjoy reading Dark Tower in the future (read Beedle of the Bard, then Harry Potter series).The children's book storyline is good - elements of perseverance, loyalty, patience, and true value. Charlie can be seen as The Velveteen Rabbit - being replaced by something newer, faster, and more enjoyable. Dark Tower fans will enjoy it as it sheds a different light on the "criminally insane monorail."The only issue is that I'm not sure how successful this is as a children's book in and of itself. I don't know that children today will be entranced by a story of a train. Having a train compete with all the other ideas in children's literature (particularly picture book), it certainly has a more narrow audience. For some, the illustrations may be a tad too creepy (the train has a Pennywise-ish smile that I enjoy, just not sure a toddler would). However, because it is from Stephen King and is tied to his Dark Tower series, I would be surprised if were not wildly successful.As a King fan, I do love how his writing has evolved over the years and how he avoids being pigeon-holed into any single genre. He is constantly evolving his craft, and I always enjoy it.I'll enjoy the menu too.

Great item nice set up