Taking her cue from her small sons, Aristides and Michael, Burton chose subjects that would intrigue children: Choo Choo, the runaway engine Mary Ann, the steam shovel who helped Mike Mulligan Katy, the brave snowplow the Little House, who survived a city burgeoning about her Calico, the wonder horse of a Western adventure told in a comic-strip format.Īll are characters who have survived for generation after generation of readers. The undiminished reputation of Virginia Lee Burton is embodied in a lifework of seven books of her own creation and her illustrations for seven books by other writers.
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