The Little Engine That Could: The Complete, Original Edition

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a b c Blair, Elizabeth (July 8, 2014). "In 'Little Engine That Could', Some See an Early Feminist Hero". All Things Considered. NPR . Retrieved September 9, 2022. The story first appeared in print with the title The Little Engine That Could in 1920, collected in Volume I of My Book House, which is a set of books sold in the U.S. by door-to-door salespersons. [2] The Book House version began: "Once there was a Train-of-Cars; she was flying across the country with a load of Christmas toys for the children who lived on the other side of the mountain". [2] The story was labeled, [4] as told by Olive Beaupré Miller, that the first edition gave credit to Bragg, but subsequent editions did not as Miller subsequently concluded that "the story belonged to the realm of folk literature". [2] Miller was the founding editor and publisher of The Book House for Children, a company based in Chicago. Earlier versions appeared in the New-York Tribune as part of a sermon by the Rev. Charles S. Wing (1906). Other versions appeared in Foundation Stones of Success (1910) and in the Kindergarten Review. The story as we know it first appeared as ‘The Little Engine That Could’ in 1920 ( My Book House, Vol. 1). Watty Piper’s version illustrated by Lenski is the best-known incarnation. An amended version was published by Platt & Munk in 1954. In March 2011, the story was adapted as a 3-D film named The Little Engine That Could, produced by Universal Studios and featuring the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alyson Stoner, and Corbin Bleu. [7] Song [ edit ]

Jumpstart's Read for the Record Event Highlights". Archived from the original on February 25, 2009 . Retrieved June 19, 2008. The trains each give different reasons for why they won’t, or will, carry the train. What makes a moral action change between these characters. In the 1941 Disney film Dumbo (as well as the Disneyland theme park ride), when Casey Jr. the circus train puffs up a hill, he chants, "I think I can!" and "I thought I could!" when going down the hill. [27] In The Little Engine That Could, each train gives different reasons for why it won’t, or can’t, help the toys. Despite the fact that they each feel that they are doing right, they may be doing the wrong thing by failing to help. The idea that there is a right and a wrong thing despite circumstances is moral absolutism. This means that you should do the right thing, no matter what, and that people who are mistaken about what is right and wrong can still do the wrong thing. Questions for Philosophical Discussion Subjective Opinions

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Michael Rodrigo and Luke Williams as Scott and Stretch, a pair of bullies who antagonize Richard in the real world. Saulsberry also voices Bud, a toy giraffe. He is much less talkative compared to Lou and does not speak until near the end of the film.

Jamie Lee Curtis as Bev, a female clown toy who serves as the leader of the toys and Lauren's engineer. Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 2012 Railfest". Archived from the original on September 15, 2012 . Retrieved April 18, 2018. The philosophical ideas brought up are moral relativism and moral absolutism. Relativism comes in many flavors, but the one that fits best with The Little Engine That Could is cultural relativism. The world is full of people with different ideas about what is right and what is wrong, and what culture they grew up in changes how they think about things. In other words, they think like those around them, and as such, their values may be different from yours. The trains each believe they are doing the right thing based on their own values, and these stem from the kind of work they do. In the 1941 Disney movie Dumbo, the circus train chants Little Engine’s motivational words ‘I-think-I-can’. The Little Engine: The Original Tale from 1920 By Olive Beaupre Miller, John Kurtz-Simon and Schuster

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a b c Cullinan, Bernice E., and Diane Goetz Person. The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group, August 1, 2003. p. 634.

The tale with its easy-to-grasp moral has become a classic children's story and was adapted in January 1991 as a 30-minute animated film [6] produced in the United Kingdom and co-financed in the United Kingdom and the United States. The film named the famous little engine Tillie and expanded the narrative into a larger story of self-discovery. An American fairy tale, it was chosen by ‘Jumpstart Read for the Record’ to be read worldwide in 2006. In 2007, it was also named in the ‘Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children’.Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary This classic story explores such diverse topics as relativism and perseverance, among others. This book was chosen by "Jumpstart Read for the Record" to be read worldwide to tens of thousands of children on August 24, 2006. [29]