1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up discussion

The Monthly Book Club read for August 2025 is The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (1930). Watty Piper never existed! Watty Piper is a “house” pseudonym for the American publishing house Platt & Munk. It was used on numerous other children’s books.

It is available online at –
• Open Library -- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17544...

Information about the author and the book is available at --
• Wikipedia (Watty Piper, author) – None available.

I did read this. It was definitely a reread. I still had it on my shelf from having read it to my now 38 year old daughter.