The Little Engine That Could: The Complete, Original Edition

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I Think I Can Rail Tour Schedule". Archived from the original on June 13, 2011 . Retrieved April 18, 2018. I Think I Can Rail Tour". Archived from the original on November 28, 2010 . Retrieved June 19, 2008. Later versions would revamp the story to have a more specific appeal for children – the stranded train is recast as a train of good food and anthropomorphic toys for the children across the mountain, thus in saving the train the little engine seems to be working for the benefit of the child reader, making the successful deed all the more triumphant.

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The story of the little engine has been told and retold many times. The underlying theme is the same—a stranded train is unable to find an engine willing to take it on over difficult terrain to its destination. Only the little engine is willing to try and, while repeating the mantra "I think I can, I think I can", overcomes a seemingly impossible task. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary This classic story explores such diverse topics as relativism and perseverance, among others. Mocean Melvin as Big Choo-Choo Charlie, a silver streamlined Dream Hauler with a purple and orange stripes. National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" . Retrieved August 22, 2012. In the 1941 Disney movie Dumbo, the circus train chants Little Engine’s motivational words ‘I-think-I-can’.The Little Engine: The Original Tale from 1920 By Olive Beaupre Miller, John Kurtz-Simon and Schuster I Think I Can Rail Tour Schedule". Archived from the original on July 6, 2008 . Retrieved April 18, 2018.

A long and heavy train needs to be pulled up and over a high mountain because its engine has broken down. When all the strong, powerful engines are asked, they refuse. It is Little Engine who agrees and succeeds in pulling the train up and over the steep mountain. Little Engine motivates itself by chanting, ‘I-think-I- can, I-think-I- can, I-think-I- can’. Jumpstart's Read for the Record Event Highlights". Archived from the original on February 25, 2009 . Retrieved June 19, 2008. Brenda Song as Shiny New Geoffrey, a yellow Dream Hauler who is very full of herself. She is one of many who was sent to help dig out the tunnel. Have you ever heard the phrase “When in Rome, do as the Romans do?” Has anyone ever said that what was right for you wasn’t right for them? We live in a world where people have a wide multitude of opinions, political, social, and moral. What makes them have these opinions, and are they always entitled to them? In The Little Engine That Could, a train carrying toys and treats for good boys and girls breaks down. Three train engines decide to not help, each for their own reasons. Finally, a little blue engine comes along and helps. This story is a helpful reminder of the importance of perspective and optimism.This book was chosen by "Jumpstart Read for the Record" to be read worldwide to tens of thousands of children on August 24, 2006. [29] A 1949 recording of the story by Paul Wing was inducted to the National Recording Registry in 2009. [26] In popular culture [ edit ] In The Little Engine That Could, each train gives different reasons for why it won’t, or can’t, help the toys. Despite the fact that they each feel that they are doing right, they may be doing the wrong thing by failing to help. The idea that there is a right and a wrong thing despite circumstances is moral absolutism. This means that you should do the right thing, no matter what, and that people who are mistaken about what is right and wrong can still do the wrong thing. Questions for Philosophical Discussion Subjective Opinions The philosophical ideas brought up are moral relativism and moral absolutism. Relativism comes in many flavors, but the one that fits best with The Little Engine That Could is cultural relativism. The world is full of people with different ideas about what is right and what is wrong, and what culture they grew up in changes how they think about things. In other words, they think like those around them, and as such, their values may be different from yours. The trains each believe they are doing the right thing based on their own values, and these stem from the kind of work they do.

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