About this title: This timeless 1930 children's classic has been newly re-illustrated with a friendly, primary color-clad clown and engagingly anthropomorphized engines. An endearing, rotund purple elephant is one of the helpful toys that do their best to help the Little Blue Engine make it over the mountain. Loren Long also illustrated MR. PEABODY'S APPLES by ...
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Description: Very Good. 0590466720 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Platt & Munk Publishers,
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780448405209ISBN:0448405202
Description: Good. Celebrating Sixty Years in Print! Cover shelf worn and corners tattered. First page has pen markings but all other tight, clean, and crisp. read more
"8.) The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper Piper, W. (2005) The little engine that could. New York, NY: Philomel Books. Illustrated by Loren Long Summary: This book is about a little engine that keeps trying to make it up a hill. She doesn't think she can make it but he keeps trying. I would use this book to teach about persistence and that it is important to keep going even when you think you cannot continue."
"Everyone knows the story of the little engine that could! The red engine was full of toys and delicious food that he was trying to get to the other side of the mountain with all of the goodies for the boys and girls but it got stuck! All of a sudden, a shiny new engine came and the clown asked for help but the engine wouldn't help. Next, a big engine came but he wouldn't help either. Another engine still came after that but he was rusty and too tired to help. Finally, a bright blue engine came up the hill and was concerned about the toys. He admitted he wasn't big, but agreed to help pull them up the hill. All the way he would say "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" and even though it was very hard work, he made it to the other side of the mountain! This story is a classic; the pictures are great, and the story line is cute. I like that the actual line encourages children to do the right thing and never give up on the things they are trying to do! I think it also teaches them the importance of helping others. Thematically, it could be used when talking trains or helping others."
"Great story to teach about ambition. I always wanted my children to be independent when they grew older, I taught all of my children to learn how to live on their own without clinging to a man or rely on him. Every one of them are strong and educated, even those who are married have the confidence and the means to survive if anything tragic should happen. I would like to think that reading them this book time and again as they were growing, had something to do with this outcome, if only just a small part. I love this book. It teaches strength, ambition, and how to believe in yourself."
"This classic book tells the story of a train whose engine stalls out before it can get over the last mountain to deliver toys and food to the good children on the other side of the mountain. The toys begin to flag down passing engines to take them the rest of the way. Several engines refuse, but a little blue engine agrees to try, even though she has never pulled such a heavy load. Through generous good will and tenacity she makes it over hill.
The well-written and original plot, and the pleasantly repetitive "I think I can," "I thought I could" has ensured its popularity for over sixty years. It has been illustrated in several styles, but this one and the one by Ruth Sanderson are the best ones I have seen.
The Wee Sing And Pretend album (ASIN 0613882393) has a "Little Blue Engine" song derived from this book which makes a good companion to it."
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