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Title: The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, George Hauman, Doris Hauman ISBN: 0-448-40520-2 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pub. Date: June, 1978 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Too bad it is abridged
Comment: The current self-help genre tends to be dwelling on hurts and self-pity, then finding magical solutions. Our Little Engine just has healthy self-confidence and determination. And please don't stress even that when reading it to the kids who will love it, since they find their own more imaginative interpretations.
The unabridged version is a lifetime favourite of mine, and, for classroom use or that with older children, find a copy at all costs. This version does retain much of the essence, however, and is great for the pre-school set. The only "negative" I can think of is that the kids so love the repetition that parents may grow a bit tired of the daily requests for it to be re-read, especially if the particular child wants to hear only certain sections (I knew one who always wanted "the clown part," the other "the food part.")
The same enjoyable repetition makes this a favourite story to read to children in primary grades. Yes, be sure you don't stop the kids from all joining in "I think I can..."
This remains one book that every favourite kid of mine receives as a present. If it disappoints any of your children, that will be a first, in my experience!
Rating: 4
Summary: review
Comment: This is about a train full of toys and good things to eat. They are traveling to get to a town full of good girls and boys and the engine on the train they are in breaks down. They need to get there so when an engine passes they ask if it will help them. They make up reasons why they can't do it like they don't have time to help and things like that. Then a little engine comes along and is willing to help them out. Nobody thinks this engine can pull the train over the mountain because it is too little but the engine believes he can and tries to do it anyway. The engine starts to pull the train and keeps saying "I think I can, I think I can", ...
This is a great book for children. It teaches them they can do whatever they put their minds too. The little engine did not give up just because no one thought he could pull the train over the mountain. He kept going ... people can do anything if they believe in themselves.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Little Engine that Could
Comment: This story is a childrens classic. A wonderful tale about a little helpful train that overcomes great physical adversity through sheer will power. A great moral teaching story for young impressionable children. This story teaches our children especially our daughters that they too can be successful if they
work hard and think positive. This is a story I'll read to my daughter many times. The little engine represent a positive female role model without flaunting its femininity. In fact I had forgotten the engine was female until I read it again recently. A great story worth checking out.
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Title: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton ISBN: 0395169615 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 September, 1939 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ISBN: 0060254920 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 09 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey ISBN: 0670451495 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1941 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Corduroy by Don Freeman, Richard Peck ISBN: 0670241334 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1968 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition by Crockett Johnson ISBN: 0064430227 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 20 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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