Charlie the Choo-Choo

I had to throw some penalty flags on the geographic references considering the stretch of land between St Louis and Topeka isn't flat in our world. It was nice to finally get to see the faces of Charlie and the ‘happy' kids.

After reading the question to the Goodreads community about how someone's library classifies this book, I found it interesting that mine put it in the Junior section.

This is a fan created easter egg for Stephen King's Dark Tower series. On the surface, it seems like a very short and innocent kids story, which is why I gave it only 3 stars - but I'm told those who've read book three the series will see it quite differently. A clever analogue of the King in Yellow, perhaps?

I never got around to finishing the series as it was still being written when I read the first book. Hopefully, I'll get around to it again soon and can update this with some more context.