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Maybelle, the cable car

Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.

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Main Author: Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Edition:[New ed.].
Subjects:
Progress > Juvenile fiction.
Cable cars (Streetcars) > Juvenile fiction.
Cable cars (Streetcars) > Preservation and restoration > Juvenile fiction.
Determination (Personality trait) > Juvenile fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.
Physical Description:42 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 cassette (analog)
ISBN:9780395840030
0395840031
9780395828472
0395828473
9780613029827
0613029828
9780758731142
0758731140
Author Notes:Virginia Lee Burton was born August 30, 1909 in Massachusetts. She was an author and illusrator of children's books.

Her titles include Maybelle the Cable Car, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and Choo Choo: The Story of a Little Engine Who Ran Away. In 1942, she won the Caldecott Medal for her title, The Little House.

Burton died on October 15, 1968 in Massachusetts.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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