Virginia Lee Burton

The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton wrote and illustrated stories that have been entertaining children, parents, and grandparents for more than sixty years. Many of her books-with themes that honor a simple way of life and celebrate heroes who endure through determination and by adapting to change-have become classic American tales. With an introduction by Barbara Elleman, author of Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art, this handsome collection commemorates...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A collection of stories about trucks. Adaptations of award-winning children's picture books.