Maybelle: The Cable Car
Author:
Virginia Lee Burton 
Complete Authored Works
Illustrator:
Virginia Lee Burton Complete Authored Works
Publication:
1952 by Houghton Mifflin Company
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Picture Books, Poetry, Read Aloud
Pages:
42
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Maybelle
was a cable car
A San Francisco
cable car
Up and down
and around she went . . .
No hill too steep
no load too heavy
Always cheerful
always gay . . .
Until the City Fathers said the cable cars were old-fashioned and must give way to big modern buses.
"No," said the people of San Francisco. "The cable cars must not go." They rose up in defense of their beloved cable cars—the only ones left in the whole world.
A true story based on recent happenings in San Francisco, MAYBELLE THE CABLE CAR shows how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy.
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Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton
Reviewed by Sherry Early
Maybelle the Cable Car ranks right up there with Ms. Burton’s other lovely books. Set in San Francisco, this picture book tells the story of how Maybelle and the other cable cars work hard going up and down the many hills of the city. In their big green barn at night, Maybelle and the other cable car reminisce about the good old days in San Francisco when the city was smaller and slower and every one knew everyone else and everyone appreciated the cable cars. Now the cable cars, who work for the city government, are neglected, and Big Bill the Bus says they are “too old and out of date, much too slow and can’t be safe.”
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