Solutions may come from unexpected places.Faster isn’t always the best way to prove yourself.Just because you’re on top now doesn’t mean you’ll be on top later. The little boy provided a solution that used the best qualities of Mike and Mary Ann in a new way. What if Mary Ann became the furnace for the new town hall and Mike became the janitor? So that’s just what they did. It took a little boy to think of the perfect transformational suggestion. They dug the basement in one day, but Mike forgot to leave a way out! Everyone in town had different ideas about how to handle this challenge. Mike made a deal with the leaders that if he couldn’t finish the job in one day, they didn’t have to pay him. They found their way to a job in a small town, digging the basement of the town hall. Mike loved Mary Ann and didn’t want to relegate her to the trash heap, like the other steam shovels. They were known far and wide as the fastest steam shovel team, building sky scrapers, airports and roads….until the gas and diesel shovels came along and made Mary Ann obsolete. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel is about Mike and his steam shovel Mary Ann. Today’s book is Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.Ĭould it be that the books I loved as a child foreshadowed my passion for transformation as an adult? I’m starting to believe that. This month, we are focusing on lessons from my favorite children’s books.
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