Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Growing Up With almost 4 million copies

With almost 4 million copies sold more than 50 years after its original publication

Summer is here

even when the odds are stacked against him

Told with deadpan humor and charming art

there is a hero

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Growing Up With almost 4 million copiesA modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike