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Book Review of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel 75th Anniversary

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel 75th Anniversary
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This is a beautiful anniversary edition of the classic story of Mike and his steam shovel Mary Anne, originally published in 1939. The end papers have lovely illustrations of the steam shovel with all of its parts labeled, and showing its 3 basic actions: crowd, hoist, swing. An access code is provided to download a free audiobook version read by Matthew Broderick.