Written and illustrated by Bill Peet. 'A riotously funny picture book
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Written and illustrated by Bill Peet. 'A riotously funny picture book
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Progress forces Smokey the switch engine out of a job until he discovers a new way to help people.
About the Author
Bill Peet was the author of 34 books published by Houghton Mifflin. One of these, BILL PEET: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, was named a 1989 Caldecott Honor Book. All of Bill Peet's books published by Houghton Mifflin Company, including his first book for children published in 1959, HUBERT'S HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURE, remain actively in print today.
In both his career as an author and illustrator of children's books and in his work as sketch artist and continuity illustrator at Walt Disney, Bill Peet created a menagerie of memorable characters. As he himself noted, "I write about animals because I love to
Progress forces Smokey the switch engine out of a job until he discovers a new way to help people. "Told in such excellent, free-swinging verse and illustrated with such vigorous and funny pictures that it outranks most of its predecessors." -- Horn Book
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