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- Author: Watty Piper
- Genre: Children's Book
- Illustrator: Lois Lenski
- Publication Date: 1930
- Publisher: Platt & Munk
- Pages: 48
- ISBN: 9780399244674
- Adaptations: film
- Promotes self esteem and self reliance
- Alternate Title: The Pony Engine
- It is debated whether Watty Piper is a psuedonym for the publishing house Platt & Munk or a pen name for Mabel Caroline Bragg
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The Little Engine That Could is a children's book about optimism written by Watty Piper in 1930. The phrase from the book "I think I can" has been used as encouragement ever since.
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Synopsis
The Little Engine That Could is a story about a stranded train in search of an engine that will take it over the mountain. After the stranded train asked many larger engines and got turned down, the little blue engine agreed to do her best and try.Chanting "I think I can, I think I can" she succeeds in what the bigger stronger trains refused to even try.
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I think I can I think I can I think I can. I AM the little engine that could. :)
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http://bit.ly/c5WLQU The Little Engine That Could..... I know I know but still its pretty accurate
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@CarolAnne1986 i'll post photos for sure if i can get it right! ha! but yeah it does take more time...blah. the little engine that could...
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