I think I can, I think I can. The most famous pep talk in children's literature comes to toddlers in a big lap sized board book, with the story slightly abridged and the beloved illustrations from the original George and Doris Hauman edition: the brave blue engine, the stranded toys, and the mountain that could not stop her.

Watty Piper's classic has been teaching the can do attitude since 1930, and this Platt and Munk edition keeps all of it, printed at a generous 10.5 x 9.25 inches on thick board pages that survive enthusiastic toddler hands. It is sized for a lap, which is exactly where it will be read, over and over, most nights.

For ages 1 to 3, and for every grown up who still hears that chugging refrain on hard days. Few first bookshelves are complete without her.