The Little Engine That Could — Watty Piper

Description

The original 1930 edition of the beloved American children's classic: retold by Watty Piper from "The Pony Engine" by Mabel C. Bragg, with the iconic illustrations by Lois Lenski. When a train full of toys and good food for the children on the other side of the mountain is stranded, only the small, unassuming Little Blue Engine is willing to try — chugging along with the immortal refrain, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can."

This edition reproduces the complete original 1930 Platt & Munk picture book, page for page, illustrations and all.

Format: ePub, illustrated picture-book edition (compatible with Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and all major e-readers)

Edition: U.S. public domain edition. This work entered the U.S. public domain on January 1, 2026, 95 years after its first publication.

Excerpt

Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks. She was a happy little train for she had such a jolly load to carry. Her cars were filled full of good things for boys and girls.

There were toy animals—giraffes with long necks, Teddy bears with almost no necks at all, and even a baby elephant. Then there were dolls—dolls with blue eyes and yellow curls, dolls with brown eyes and brown bobbed heads, and the gayest little toy clown you ever saw.