Best Selling Books by Virginia Lee

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her, in a board-book version of a timeless Caldecott Medal book.

Geappolis is hidden under a blanket of snow until a red crawler tractor saves the day.

Mike Mulligan está orgulloso de su hermosa y roja excavadora de vapor, Mary Anne. Ellos forman un equipo desde hace años y años, juntos han cavado grandes canales, han abierto el paso entre montañas, han aplanado las colinas y han alineado las curvas. Pero cuando las nuevas excavadoras comienzan a reemplazar a las grúas como Mary Anne, Mike se resiste a abandonar a su amiga. Los dos se van para el pequeño pueblo de Popperville, donde salen victoriosos en un gran desafío.

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.

In the beginning God created the earth plus the life of two people, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were disobedient, they committed a unforgivable sin when they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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

Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco''s effort to keep the city''s cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton''s original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel plus three other classic picture book favorites, in one collection. The four complete and unabridged picture books by Virginia Lee Burton in this volume are: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel The Little House (a Caldecott Medal winner) Katy and the Big Snow Maybelle the Cable Car Virginia Lee Burton wrote and illustrated stories that have been entertaining children, parents, and grandparents for more than sixty years. Many of her books—with themes that honor a simple way of life and celebrate heroes who endure through determination and by adapting to change—have become classic American tales. With an introduction by Barbara Elleman, author of Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art, this attractive collection commemorates four of Burton’s most popular stories, each featured complete and unabridged. Their appeal today, as strong as when the books were first published, is a tribute to one of America’s most innovative illustrators, designers, and writers of stories for children.

The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties.

Ten Little Pumpkins has five different books, each in english and another language. This is the first book and it is in English / Spanish. The other 4 print editions of this book are English / German; English / French; English / Russian; and English / Italian. It is a fun book which can use the melody to Ten Little Indians to count up to ten and subtract down to 0 in both languages. It emcompasses sequencing, counting and subtracting, along with fun play for everyone!

When ten-year-old Maryanne dies, six-year-old Mark-O and the rest of the family become a little wiser about death.

Geappolis is hidden under a blanket of snow until a red crawler tractor saves the day.

The three scholarly articles that make up this book examine affirmative action in economic terms, measuring and discussing the economic cost of racial discrimination in employment and the economic cost of equal opportunity enacted to combat discrimination and its effects. The short article by Andrew Brimmer, an economist who was the first black governor of the Federal Reserve Board, calculates the financial cost to the nation of racial discrimination in employment, education, and training. Cecilia Conrad''s article surveys an array of experts and concludes that the direct financial costs to government and private industry of maintaining affirmative action policies is quite small; she also concludes that the popular perception of a productivity loss caused by affirmative action has little basis in demonstrable fact. Finally, Lee Badgett and Heidi Hartmann examine the many studies that have been done to assess the effectiveness of affirmative action policies in increasing employment and wage opportunities for both women and African Americans; they conclude that such policies have had measurable effects, though they have often been slight.

Tomatoes are a staple ingredient for cuisines from all around the world. Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee have collected innovative recipes from chefs across Canada using the familiar yet delicious tomato.

Seventy-five years ago, Virginia Lee Burton created the Little House, and since then generations of readers have been enchanted by the story of this happy home and her journey from the pleasures of nature to the bustling city, and back again. This enhanced ebook edition includes read-along audio.

Way out west in Cactus county lived a horse named Calico. She wasn’t very pretty, but she was smart and could run like greased lightning. When villain Stewy Stinker threatens to hold up Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, will Calico the Wonder Horse be able to save the day? This gift edition celebrates the 75th Anniversary of this classic tale by Caldecott medalist Virginia Lee Burton, the author of Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel. With an updated cover, it''s the perfect holiday present for children of all ages.

The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law''s own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser''s Faerie Queene, the Gesta Grayorum, Donne''s ''Satyre V'', and Shakespeare''s Measure for Measure and The Winter''s Tale, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Key FeaturesReevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.

The 3rd edition of the ultimate guidebook for an unforgettable culinary tour of British Columbia.

Many of Canada''s best chefs are now celebrate fall with pumpkin and squash dishes on their menus. In this new addition to the Flavours collection of cookbooks, Elaine Elliott and Virginia Lee offer a tantalizing array of recipes drawn from fine restaurants across the country. These include Pumpkin Cream Cheese French Toast (Keltic Lodge, Ingonish, NS), Baked Sugar Pears with Pumpkin (Peller Estates Winery Restaurant, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON), and Red Kuri Squash Ravioli with Seared Trout and Braised Radicchio (Raincity Grill, Vancouver, BC). Top this off with Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake or a scoop of light Pumpkin Ice Cream. Who could know there would be so many recipes from this member of the squash family? All these recipes have been tested and adapted for home cooking.

This cookbook offers all kinds of great ideas for preparing one of Canada''s favourite summer treats! Of course there are recipes for the best blueberry grunt you''ve ever tasted, but there are also more modern recipes for Spinach Salad with Smoked Ahi Tuna and Blueberry Dressing, Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Blueberries and Cheese, as well as fancier dishes like Caramel Chocolate Crème with Warm Blueberry Sauce and Cold Blueberry Soufflé. Authors Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee went to some of Canada''s finest chefs to get their best ideas for preparing blueberries and all the recipes have been adapted and tested for home cooking. Recipes are illustrated in full colour throughout the book. As well, there''s an introduction that answers every question about blueberries: where they are gown, how they are harvested, how to preserve them, their health benefits and how the varieties differ from one another.