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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

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Author(s):Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Co.
Year Published: 1939
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Engineering
Picture Book
Trucks/Cars/Big Machines
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 48
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 0395169615
ISBN-13: 9780395169612
OCLC: 170273

Description

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Anne win the bid to dig the cellar for the new town hall in Popperville, they get a chance to prove that Mary Anne ‘can dig as much in a day as a hundred men in a week.’

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The Little House gets a new lease on life when she moves to the country.

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Katy and the Big Snow (1943)

When the big snow paralyzes the town, Katy goes to work and plows it out.

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Maybelle the Cable Car (1952)

When the city fathers of San Francisco decide to remove the cable cars in the name of progress, the people vote to keep them.

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Mike Mulligan and More: A Virgina Lee Burton Treasury (2002)

An omnibus containing Mike Mulligan, The Little House, Katy and the Big Snow and Maybelle the Cable Car.

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