Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
by Virginia Lee Burton · first published 1939
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When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.
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…series Little Toot Katy and the Big Snow Tikki Tikki Tembo Eloise Babar series Others from Weekly Reader - including Gus was a Friendly Ghost, Be Nice to Spiders, The Mystery of the Great Swamp, and Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel Later Stuart Little series
on “Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?” ↗…also Room on the Broom, which is also quite good and reads well. In fact, maybe prefer that one. 6) Lots of the early Golden Books that aren't licensed properties—The Little Engine that Could, et c. 7) Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel 8) The Velveteen Rabbit (beware—it'll make the room a tad dusty) 9) Mother Goose nursery rhymes, enough exposure that they won't miss references to them, at least (I suspect we're losing these as a…
on “AI is coming for your children” ↗…"Werner Hertzog reads..." series on Youtube is pretty amazing. It ranges from a kinda silly, rambling take on Where's Waldo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek through a pretty thoughtful version of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1R5vDG2Tg to an incredibly deep interpretation of Madeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57EDxvldLD4
on “The hidden messages in children’s books” ↗I've heard this before... Oh yeah, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel http://blog.acton.org/archives/67697-lessons-creative-destru...
on “London's Buried Diggers” ↗Wow. That's like a real-life "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Sh...
on “Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm” ↗> This was a big enough deal in Hanksville that they closed school so that all the kids could come down and see the big plane. You just reminded me of the book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. Thanks for that!
on “Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia” ↗Checks out with what I read in "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel." Man, I read that book to my kids so many times I can probably still recite it in it's entirety. I miss having little kids.
on “Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them” ↗