The Little Engine That Could: The Complete and Original Story

This timeless 1930 children's classic has been newly re-illustrated with a friendly, primary color-clad clown and engagingly anthropomorphized engines. An endearing, rotund purple elephant is one of the helpful toys that do their best to help the Little Blue Engine make it over the mountain. Loren Long also illustrated MR. PEABODY'S APPLES by Madonna. Both a Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2005.

Long...pays respectful homage to George and Doris Hauman's compositions in his visual interpretation of the classic tale of determination and perseverance...Yet the artist adds a lushness to the spreads and injects even more personality into the characters...." - (Publishers Weekly, 8/22/05)

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