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Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel: Story and pictures (Children's Braille Book-of-the-month Club)

82 reviews
Virginia Lee Burton

National Braille Press, 1986

Death of a Steam Shovel
Mr. Michael Mulligan and his faithful steam shovel, lovingly called Mary Anne, are working class heroes, fighting to retain their independence in the face of corporate technological prowess in the construction industry. Can outmoded steam power compete with the awesome strength of diesel? Conveniently, this book features paper (not plastic) pages, so your tot can decimate the images of the vile ...

Choo Choo

16 reviews
Virginia Lee Burton

Houghton Mifflin, 1988

First 'real' book our Very Active 2 year old will sit through in entirety!
My 3rd son loves trains much more than my 1st who loved them a lot, but...although he doesn't have a ton of words yet and is only starting to put 3 or more words together can tell you the entire plot of this story...fills in the word missing if you stop for a second...points out people in the book as his cat, his grandma, etc...it has everything a train loving kid could ask for including another ...

Calico the Wonder Horse

5 reviews
Virginia Lee Burton

Faber Children's Books, 1973

Calico to the Rescue.....
"Way out west in Cactus County there was a horse named Calico. She wasn't very pretty...but she was very smart. She was the smartest fastest horse in all of Cactus County." She could run like "greased lightning", and she could smell like a bloodhound. "Her nose was so keen she could track a bee through a blizzard." She was owned by a cowboy named Hank, and "...she would go to the end of the ...