The author, Virgina Lee Burton, would read her books aloud to her own two sons and to neighbor children, to make sure they liked it. ”Īnd the sentence ends in three, flat, one-syllable words that land with incredulity: “All the people came over to see if Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel could dig the cellar in. “Now the girl who answers the telephone called up the next towns of BANGerville and BOPperville and KIPperville and KOPperville and TOLD them what was HAPpening in POPperville. In the page I shared, you can hear the building, busy excitement as more and more people get caught up in the action:
You would have to work really hard to read it wrong. I was admiring once again the perfectly-crafted rhythm of the story. I shared this after reading it aloud for maybe the eight thousandth time the other day.
I, on the other hand, post a little bit of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel: My friends on social media often share excerpts from books they are reading: Illuminating passages from encyclicals, breathtaking ideas found in scholarly books about design and sociology.
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