Train's Pat Monahan Lead Voice in Driver Dan's Story Train

Posted on October 10, 2010

Pat Monahan, the lead singer of Train, is the lead voice in Driver Dan's Story Train, which will debut on Sprout on Monday, November 1 at 6:30 p.m. ET. Driver Dan's Story Train focuses on the values of sharing, tolerance and teamwork and teaches preschoolers that "Talking matters. Listening matters. Stories matter." The show features a group of animated preschool characters, including Driver Dan, a lion voiced by Pat Monahan.

Each episode is a pop-up book come to life that invites preschoolers at home to be a part of each story time adventure. Real children are integrated into the story by replaying actions such as jumping like a frog or emotions like being happy or sad. The footage is then composited into the storybook artwork itself - so the children are seen to actually play amongst the story they have just been told.

Monahan says in the announcement, "I'm very excited to be driving a different kind of Train as the voice of Driver Dan. In my house, my daughter wakes up with Sprout every morning and now when she goes to bed with Sprout, she can do it with me as Driver Dan- it will be a lot of fun."