Synopsis
By recounting actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy.
Review
Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) was the talented author and illustrator of some of the most enduring books ever written for children. The winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for THE LITTLE HOUSE, Burton's books include heroes and happy endings, lively illustrations, and a dash of nostalgia. She lived with her two sons, Aristides and Michael, and her husband George Demetrios, the sculptor, in a section of Gloucester, Massachusetts, called Folly Cove. Here she taught a class in design and from it emerged the Folly Cove designers, a group of internationally known professional artisans. She is the author of many classic children's picture books, including MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL and KATY AND THE BIG SNOW.
This story of Maybelle's fight to remain relevant in a world of progress is a classic. Burton (beloved author of MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL) wrote and illustrated this book in the 1950s to tell the tale of San Francisco's fight to save its cable cars from extinction. The story has an old-fashioned feel, which Peter Kovner's hearty narration does everything to enhance. Kovner enthusiastically produces all the required sounds (clangs, dings, conductor's calls), and the story's brisk pace is further fueled by Burton's rhymes and the pleasant background music that makes you want to hop on and join the ride. J.C.G. � AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Maybelle the Cable Car
Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.
Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952."
Katy and the Big Snow
Katy, a red crawler tractor, can do a lot of things. In the summer she is a bulldozer, in the winter, she turns into a snowplough, waiting and waiting for her chance to be useful. Most of the winters, though, the snowfalls are mild and the town doesn't need Katy. But when the big one finally hits the entire community is dependent on one little snowplough.
Katy, a red crawler tractor, can do a lot of things."
The Little House
The little house first stood in the country, but gradually the city moved closer and closer.
The little house first stood in the country, but gradually the city moved closer and closer."
Choo Choo
A little engine decides it could be much faster without pulling all the other cars, so it takes off by itself.
A little engine decides it could be much faster without pulling all the other cars, so it takes off by itself."
Mike Mulligan and More
Best known for the ever popular Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the Caldecott Medal winner The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton wrote and illustrated stories that have been entertaining children, parents, and grandparents for more than sixty years. Many of her books—with themes that honor a simple way of life and celebrate heroes who endure through determination and by adapting to change—have become classic American tales. With an introduction by Barbara Elleman, author of Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art, this handsome collection commemorates four of Burton’s most popular stories, each featured complete and unabridged. Their appeal today, as strong as when the books were first published, is a tribute to one of America’s most innovative illustrators, designers, and writers of stories for children.
The four complete and unabridged picture books by Virginia Lee Burton in this volume are: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel The Little House (a Caldecott Medal winner) Katy and the Big Snow Maybelle the Cable Car Virginia Lee Burton wrote ..."
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne dug the great canals, railways and highways. They dug the foundations of skyscrapers and the landing fields for aeroplanes. But when the gasoline, diesel and electric shovels arrive, it looks like Mary would be sold for junk, unless Mike can think of a really special job…
Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne dug the great canals, railways and highways."
Virginia Lee Burton
Examines the life, career, artistic style, and literary themes of the twentieth-century author and illustrator of such classic picture books as "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" and "The Little House."
Lampposts stud the page, giving ballast to Maybelle and providing a guide for the reader as the cable car streams along. MAYBELLETFIE CABLE CAR and her humming looms quicken the action. The Emperor's parade, a seemingly endless ..."
Life Story
Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue.
Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue."
Literature and Technology
This collection of essays uses recent work on literature and science to establish new ways of relating literature and language theory to writings about technology (as distinguished from science). The interdisciplinary character of these essays is further enriched by drawing upon contemporary studies of the philosophy and history of technology, which provide the context for the first essay (Mitcham and Casey). Subsequent essays examine technology from many points of view - how technology shapes texts and contexts, as well as how writers shape perspectives on technology. The essays examine texts as diverse as seventeenth-century science and twentieth-century children's literature and spy fiction. Major authors investigated include Chaucer, Blake, Romains, Pynchon, and Prigogine. Individual essays consider: Chaucer's use of mapmaking as a coercive technology (Tomasch), the Renaissance fascination with mechanical contrivances and their depiction (Knoespel), the contexts within which Boyle and his successors described the air pump (Markley), Blake's manifold interests in the technology of printing (Greenberg), Romains's development of a philosophy of poetry appropriate to early twentieth-century technology in Paris (Williams), gender issues in children's literature about machines (Lee), technology in the modern spy novel (Slade), Thomas Pynchon's mixed feelings about technology and its value (Schachterle), and the relations between postmodern fiction and the technology of thermodynamics, as developed by Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine (Porush). The editors of Literature and Technology have been active in the formation and direction of the Society for Literature and Science. In their introduction to this collection, they consider what characterizes literature and technology as a new and fertile field for interdisciplinary study. This volume concludes with selected bibliographies of basic references in the philosophy of technology and of works devoted to the examination of the relationships between literature and technology.
Virginia Lee Burton , Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1939 ) . The volume is unpaginated . 18. Virginia Lee Burton , Maybelle , the Cable Car ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1952 ) . 19."
Story Elements-San Francisco Cable Cars Reader's Theater Script and Lesson
Improve reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice for performance. Motivate students with this reader's theater script and build students' knowledge through grade-level content. Included graphic organizer helps visual learners.
Literature Connection— Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton Maybelle the Cable Car takes you on a journey through San Francisco, California. The book includes fun facts about cable cars . Content Connection—Social Studies San ..."
Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Flack , Marjorie . Angus and the ducks . 1930. illus . Doubleday , $ 1 . This story of the adventures of a Scotch terrier with the ducks is told delightfully in pictures with a slight accompaniment of text . See Booklist 27:32 Sept."
Transportation (ENHANCED eBook)
Give your children a jump start on essential learning skills! At your fingertips is an endless source of creativity, ideas and information for helping you set up a 'things that go' center that integrates this popular theme right across your curriculum.
Boucher, Jerry, and Jim Kirvida. Fire Truck Nuts and Bolts. First Avenue Editions, 1994. Burton , Virginia Lee . Maybelle the Cable Car . Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. Butterfield, Moira, et al. Look Inside Cross-Sections: Bulldozer."
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature. Its 3,500 entries cover every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns. Originally published in 1983, the Companion has been comprehensively revised and updated by Daniel Hahn. Over 900 new entries bring the book right up to date. A whole generation of new authors and illustrators are showcased, with books like Dogger, The Hunger Games, and Twilight making their first appearance. There are articles on developments such as manga, fan fiction, and non-print publishing, and there is additional information on prizes and prizewinners. This accessible A to Z is the first place to look for information about the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature, as well as the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.
BURTON ,. Virginia . Lee . (1909–68) American authorillustrator of *picture books about machines or inanimate objects ... A snowplough is the heroine of Katy and the Big Snow (1943), which was followed by Maybelle the Cable Car (1952)."
Multidisciplinary Units for Prekindergarten Through Grade 2
Includes dozens of exciting lesson plans and activities as well as essays examining pedagogical and classroom management issues unique to this age group.
WEB RESOURCES Long Train : 101 Cars on the Track , Sam Williams Mr. Putter and Tabby Take the Train , Cynthia Rylant ... Lola M. Schaefer Kerby the Cable Car , Arturo Lara Garcia Maybelle the Cable Car , Virginia Lee Burton Subways Down ..."
The Radical Middle Class
America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist. The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. With its engaging narrative, conceptual richness, and daring argumentation, it will be welcomed by all who understand that reexamining the middle class can yield not only better scholarship but firmer grounds for democratic hope.
Isaac started imbibing his lessons in direct democracy at the age of three, when one of his favorite books was Virginia Lee Burton's populist tale Maybelle: The Cable Car . Isaac was, in part, named after my own father, Theodore Homer ..."
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators
Upon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. Now The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators assembles the best of that volume in one handy, affordable reference, geared specifically to parents, educators, and students. This new volume introduces readers to the wealth of children’s literature by focusing on the essentials — the best books for children, the ones that inform, impress, and, most important, excite young readers. Updated to include newcomers such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket and to cover the very latest on publishing and educational trends, this edition features more than 475 entries on the best-loved children’s authors and illustrators, numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children’s literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children.
Leaf , Munro 253 forgettable animal creations such as Ferdinand , perhaps the first flower child , and the varied ... Then his collaboration with MUNRO LEAF for The Story of Ferdinand ( 1936 ) , although not his first venture into ..."
Making Americans
Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
However, Maybelle has more than just a single character that refuses to see her junked. Burton's own description of the book was a “history of the cable car and how the people of San Francisco prevented its demise,” and here the ..."
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Korean edition of the classic story MAYBELLE THE CABLE CAR by Virginia Lee Burton, the winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for THE LITTLE HOUSE is a story about the special attraction, cable car in San Francisco."
A Guide to Subjects & Concepts in Picture Book Format
TRANSPORTATION & OTHER MACHINERY Trucks & Tractors Burton , Virginia Lee . Katy and the big snow . Houghton 1943. ... Burton , Virginia Lee . Maybelle , the cable car . Houghton 1952 . Du Bois , William Pene . Lazy Tommy pumpkinhead ."
Children's Books and Their Creators
Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.
407 Pippi Longstocking ASTRID LINDGREN Title page illustration by Louis S. Glanzman for Pippi Longstocking ( 1950 ) , by Astrid ... Pippi , the heroine of Pippi Longstocking , Pippi Goes on Board ( 1957 ) , and Pippi in the South ..."
Grade 1. Singer science for you
Have the children take the wheels off a toy car or truck and let the toy slide down a board set on an incline . Raise one end of the board by placing construction blocks under ... ( 1-3 ) Burton , Virginia Lee , Maybelle the Cable Car ."
The North Shore Literary Trail
You've devoured their pages of verse and prose--now witness firsthand the inspiration for those perfectly penned lines of Longfellow, Frost and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Discover the strong feminist voice of Judith Sargent Murray as you stroll down Middle Street in Gloucester, or navigate the narrow, winding streets of Marblehead and flip through the eighteenth-century journals of the sailor Ashley Bowen. Plan a literary-themed cultural outing or simply take a closer look at your town's local landmarks. From the "gem-emblazoned shore" of "lovely Lynn" to the gleaming gables in Hawthorne's Salem, Bierfelt uncovers some of the North Shore's most precious literary treasures.
Children's book author and illustrator Virginia Lee Burton grew up in Newton Center ... Other volumes, including Katy and the Big Snow, about a tireless tractor, and Maybelle the Cable Car , which pays homage."
Publishers Weekly
The Newbery Medal , given for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in ... of Sarah Noble ” by Alice Dalgliesh ( Scribner ) and “ Banner In the Sky ” by James Ramsey Ullman ( Lippincott ) ."
A Landscape with Dragons
The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.
Reissued Scribner Illustrated Classics For ages 10 and up: Books illustrated by N. C. Wyeth: * Tire Boy's King Arthur, ... Dominic and the Rosary , written by Catherine Beebe * St. Francis and the Seven Seas, written by Albert J. Nevins, ..."
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