Burton, Virginia Lee

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

A collection of four books by Caldecott Medal winner Virginia Lee Burton which feature characters who become heroes through determination and the ability to adapt to change.

Although Mike Mulligan's steam shovel is too old fashioned to compete with newer models, the people of Popperville find a way to keep them working.

A little engine decides it could go much faster without pulling all the other cars, so it takes off by itself.

Katy is a crawler tractor who saves the city when it is snowed in by a blizzard.

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

Katy the huge snow plow saves the people of Geopolis, when winter threatens to shut the entire city down.

Thirty-five full-color paintings show the changing face of the earth from the first cataclysmic upheavals through the various ages to the time of man.