Virginia Lee Burton - Bibliography

Bibliography

• Choo Choo (1937) ISBN 0-395-47942-8
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939) ISBN 0-590-75803-9
• Calico the Wonder Horse, or the Saga of Stewy Stinker (1941; reissued 1997)

Burton said she wrote the comic-strip-format Calico "for both Aris and Mike in an attempt to wean them away from comic books."

• The Little House (1942). (Caldecott Medal winner) ISBN 0-395-18156-9

Burton said the house of the title "was based on our own little house which we moved from the street into 'a field of daises with apple trees growing around.'"

• Katy and the Big Snow (1943) ISBN 0-395-95991-8

Burton based the book's Highway Dept. of the city of Geoppolis on the Gloucester, Massachusetts Highway Department.

• Maybelle the Cable Car (1952; reissued 1997) ISBN 0-618-16440-5

Burton said this book reflected "my school days in San Francisco."

• Life Story (1962; reissued 1989) ISBN 978-0395520178

Burton presents the history of the world, from Big Bang to her present day, as a theater production.