Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Author: Virginia Lee Burton

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0547350570

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A 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 believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.

The Making of Tools
The Making of Tools

Author: Alexander G. Weygers

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold

Published: 1973-10-01

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 9780671609245

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Demonstrates and describes procedures for designing, sharpening, and tempering various tools

The Golden Shovel Anthology
The Golden Shovel Anthology

Author: Terrance Hayes

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2019-06-07

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 168226095X

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“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.