- Steam shovels, Fiction, Children's fiction, Steam shovels, fiction
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.
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- Author
- Virginia Lee Burton
- First published
- April 30, 1993
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, HMH Books for Young Readers, Illustrationsförl./Carlsen
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780547350578
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“Mike Mulligan tenia una excavadora de vapor,una roja y hermosa excavadora de vapor.”
Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909 – October 15, 1968), also known by her married name, Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939), and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She also illustrated six books by other authors. Burton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions. Some of its members' works are held today in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Cape Ann Museum, and New York City's Metropoli
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