Virginia Lee Burton

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1) Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Series

Sandpiper books
Weekly Reader Books century collection 2000

Language

English

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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.

2) Katy and the big snow

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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Katy is a crawler tractor who saves the city when it is snowed in by a blizzard.

3) The little house

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

4) The emperor's new clothes

Author

Andersen, H. C

Language

English

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Two rascally weavers convince the emperor they are making him beautiful new clothes, visible only to those fit for their posts, but during a royal procession in which he first wears them, a child whispers that the emperor has nothing on.

5) Maybelle, the cable car

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.

6) Choo Choo

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties.

7) The Little House: A Caldecott Award Winner

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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This picture book about the changes that come to a little house is beautiful and timeless.

The little house first stood in the country, but gradually the city moved closer and closer...

In 1942, Virginia Lee Burton created The Little House, and since then generations of readers have been enchanted by the story of this happy home and her journey from the pleasures of nature to the bustling city, and back again.

8) Choo choo: the story of a little engine who ran away

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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Publisher Annotation: Choo Choo, a shiny black engine, is tired of pulling heavy coaches day after day. ?I could go much faster and easier by myself,? she says. So one day, Choo Choo takes off on an adventure.

9) Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

Español

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Big diesel machines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his little old steam shovel, Mary Anne, out of business until Mike agrees to tackle a big job.

10) Mike Mulligan and more: a Virginia Lee Burton treasury

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Series

Mike Mulligan

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel plus three other classic picture book favorites, in one collection.

The four complete and unabridged picture books by Virginia Lee Burton in this volume are:

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

The Little House (a Caldecott Medal winner)

Katy and the Big Snow

Maybelle the Cable Car

Virginia Lee Burton wrote and illustrated stories that have been entertaining

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11) Life story

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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Studies the face of the earth, how it has changed, been inhabited, built on, plowed, and used, from the earliest times to the present.

12) Calico, the wonder horse: or, The saga of Stewy Stinker

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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The amazing horse Calico is responsible for capturing a gang of bad men, finding and rounding up the stolen cattle, and seeing that the Christmas party is a success, even for the outlaws.

13) Mike Mulligan y su maquina maravillosa

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

Español

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14) Maiku marigan to suchīmu shoberu

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

日本語

15) Chiisai ouchi

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Series

¿gata ehon volume 3

Language

日本語

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A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

16) Itazura kikansha chu chu

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Series

Sekai kessaku ehon shirizu

Language

日本語

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A little engine decides it could be much faster without pulling all the other cars, so it takes off by itself.

17) Hatarakimono no josetsusha keitī

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Series

Sekai kessaku ehon shirīzu volume amerika

Language

日本語

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Katy, a red crawler tractor, can do a lot of things. In the summer she is a bulldozer, in the winter, she turns into a snowplough, waiting and waiting for her chance to be useful. Most of the winters, though, the snowfalls are mild and the town doesn't need Katy. But when the big one finally hits, the entire community is dependent on one little snowplough.

18) Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel: story and pictures

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Language

English

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Mike Mulligan proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful. When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they find a new opportunity in a very surprising place.