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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

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Author(s):Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Co.
Year Published: 1939
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Engineering
Picture Book
Trucks/Cars/Big Machines
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 48
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 0395169615
ISBN-13: 9780395169612
OCLC: 170273

Description

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Anne win the bid to dig the cellar for the new town hall in Popperville, they get a chance to prove that Mary Anne ‘can dig as much in a day as a hundred men in a week.’

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