The Little Engine That Could — The 1930 Edition (eBook)

Before the little blue engine belonged to everyone, she belonged to Lois Lenski. This is The Little Engine That Could as it was first published as a book of its own — The Platt & Munk Co., New York, 1930, retold by Watty Piper, with all thirteen of Lois Lenski's original pictures restored to their places: the color plates, the black-and-white plates, the blue engine hidden in the text, and the little silhouette trains that run across the tops and bottoms of the pages. Not a modern redraw, and not the 1954 revision — the original 1930 edition, exact text and all, with a grown-ups' introduction, the true (and tangled) story of where the tale came from, a page-by-page read-aloud guide, and questions and activities for sharing it with a child. "I think I can" — the way it was first printed.

Public domain in the United States (published 1930).