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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

I don't remember the books but I do remember the little house that had a big city grow up around it and I also remember a steam shovel that dug a basement but left no exit ramp and became a heating system. Are those these books?

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Peter Greene's avatar

They are indeed

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Tom Kephart's avatar

Thanks for this story, Peter. I've loved her books since I was a child, and "Mike Mulligan" was the one book both of my children would ask for and listen to all the way through, even into their tweens. I used to read it now and then in the oral interpretation of literature class I taught to community college students, and they always enjoyed it as well.

I appreciate learning more about her background, she sounds like she was a fascinating person. You mentioned a few of her books I've not read so I'll be looking those up in the new year.

Happy new year.

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