Picture Book Review: The Little Engine that Could

The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper, illustrated by George and Doris Hauman, Platt and Munk Publishers, New York, 1930.

This is a classic positive thinking book.  Toys and good things to eat need an engine to take them over the mountain to the children.  First the passenger engine is too important, and the freight engine is too busy.  The old engine says “I can not, I can not.”  But the little engine, who has never been over the mountain says “I think I can, I think I can.” And does.