CEwriter's new avatar

[digger242j]

Does anyone else recognize it? I do!

:yup :) :) :)

[Orchard Ex]

I can remember the story about the steam shovel and the operator but I can't remember their names. It was one of my favorite books as a little kid - I used to check it out of our elementary school library over and over...
They won the race at the end but forgot to leave a ramp to get out of the basement so he was turned into a steam boiler for the building - right?

:thumbsup

[digger242j]

LOL! You're showing your age. But you remember the story.

We'll see if anybody can remember the names.

:)

[JimBruce42]

I seem to remember the book too...:drinkup but not the name:Banghead

[Cat420]

I got a brand new copy for christmas last year. My mom said that it used to be my favorite book when I was younger. Ever since, I've had an interest in equipment and usually the bigger the better:yup

[Dozerboy]

I just asked about this in another thread, but I can't remember the name.

[Cat420]

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

[digger242j]

Yup! :thumbsup
The steam shovel has a name too...

[NateV]

I think I had a book like that, but I think it was something like "Steve and his dump truck", but I don't remember.

[Orchard Ex]

Mike Mulligan and Mary Ann
(I admit that I cheated and looked it up - stuff like that will drive me crazy for a week if I don't)

[Wolf]

Mary Anne is the Steam Shovel. We've come along way since then.


Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers. But with progress come new machines and soon the inseparable duo are out of work so Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne travel to the small town of Popperville and accept one final challenge — to dig the town cellar in just one day. What happens is a testament to their friendship and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.

[digger242j]

I'll admit I had to research to find Mary Anne's name too, but I did remember Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, and the plot of the story without any help.

BTW, CEwriter, Great avatar!

Now I'm gonna have to tear the house apart looking for my copy of the one that was really my favorite--The Rattle Rattle Dump Truck. :)

[CT18fireman]

The author Virginia Lee Burton, wrote another story "Katy the Snowplow" about a red bulldozer (or crawler tractor as she called it) that plowed out a city during a blizzard. These are were my and not my son's (4 years old) favorite stories. I read one to him at least once a week.

[Dozerboy]

A newer one is not the same author is Johnny Tractor my mom still gets them for me.:yup

[Dozerboy]

I saw a few copies of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel in Cracker Barrel if any ones looking for one.