Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Name: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Author: Virginia Lee Burton

by Virginia Lee Burton

Children's picture book about an old steam shovel and its operator saving a town

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Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Lee Burton was an American author-illustrator whose picture books celebrated industrial machinery with poetic warmth. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and The Little House remain classics of mid-twentieth century American picture books.

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