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Hi!
My name is Mairi Kate. (It sounds like Mary.) I'm seven years
old. I've been going to "steam" (antique equipment) shows since I
was 2 months old. I had my picture in Pennsylvania Magazine when
I was 5 months old, riding on Mom's back while she ran my great-grandpap's
home-built half-scale traction engine. Anyway, I know LOTS about
the stuff my dad sells. Here is a list of MY favorite toys and books.
Toys
| 1. | Putt-putt boats--Mom says I can't run these without supervision yet, but I love to watch! | |
| 2. | All the tin toys!--I like to wind them up and get them all going! Robots, trains, kangaroos . . . | |
| 3. | Wooden Railroad--These trains fit on Brio and Thomas the Tank Engine track, but they're made in America; and they make American engines and boxcars like I see at railroad crossings. | |
| 4. | Cast Iron Banks--I like to put a penny in and demonstrate them for people. | |
| 5. | Slik Toys--These toy tractors and farm equipment aren't name brands like the expensive ones, but they're great for playing with. My dad had them when he was a kid; and if he and Uncle Matt couldn't break them, I don't think you will. | |
| 6. | Slinkys--I know you can buy Slinkys at the dollar store, but these are just like the originals from 50 years ago. Dad says they're blued steel--but I say they're heavy. They REALLY walk down the stairs! I love going to the Slinky factory to buy them. | $4.00 |
| 7. | Wooden train whistles--When a customer is looking at our wooden train whistles, I get to demonstrate mine. Toot-toot! | $2.50 |
When you click on a book link, you will leave here, and go to Amazon.com. If you buy that book while you are there, Amazon.com gives 15% of the price to us. If you buy anything else while you are there, we get 5% of the price. I have a friend with Muscular Dystrophy, so I'm going to give my share to Jerry's Kids.
| For babies to three-year-olds: | |
| All Aboard. 16 pg board book | $ 5.56 |
| The Diggers. Margaret Wise Brown board book | $ 4.16 |
| Freight Train. paperback | $ 3.16 |
| Little Engine That Could. 16 pg board book I read this to my new baby sister. | $ 2.79 |
| Mr. Koala's Steam Train. 24 pg. board book | $ 9.95 |
| Trains. paperback | $ 3.99 |
| For four to eight-year-olds: | |
| All Aboard. 11 panel 5-foot long foldout train with flaps to lift. | $ 5.59 |
| All Aboard Trains. 32 pg paperback | $ 2.39 |
| Choo Choo. Virginia Lee Burton. paperback | $ 4.76 |
| Country Crossing. 32 pg paperback | $ 3.96 |
| The Diggers. Margaret Wise Brown paperback | $ 4.76 |
| DK Big Book of Trains. hardcover with color photos | $14.95 |
| John Henry and His Mighty Hammer. paperback | $ 2.80 |
| Katy and the Big Snow. Virginia Lee Burton paperback | $ 5.56 |
| Little Engine That Could. easy to read paperback | $ 2.39 |
| Little Red Caboose. (Hello Reader) paperback | $ 3.19 |
| Mighty Machines: Tractor. hardcover 21 pg. | $ 6.97 |
| Mike Mulliganand His Steam Shovel. Virginia Lee Burton. paperback Mom's favorite! | $ 4.76 |
| The Runaway Tractor. paperback | $ 7.30 |
| The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Hans Christian Anderson paperback 32 pg. | $ 5.56 |
| Steam Train Ride. paperback 32 pg. | $ 4.76 |
| Tootle. (Little Golden Book) Dad's favorite! | $ 2.80 |
| Tractor in Trouble. (Farmyard Tales Sticker Storybook Series) over 50 stickers | $ 5.56 |
| Train Leaves the Station. (counting book) paperback My favorite! | $ 4.76 |
| For nine to twelve-year-olds: | |
| Grandpa's John Deere Tractors. conversation starts in 1837 and continues until present time - over 60 photos | $9.95 |
| Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. paperback 256 pg. | $ 3.99 |
| She's Been Working On the Railroad. hardcover | $11.89 |
| Survival! Train Wreck, Kansas, 1892. paperback | $ 3.19 |
| Ten Mile Day: and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad. paperback | $ 5.56 |
| Train. (Eyewitness Books) hardcover | $13.30 |
| The Transcontinental Railroad. (Cornerstones of Freedom) paperback | $ 4.76 |
| Amanda Goes West: A Journal of Fashion History Through Paper Dolls. 20 pg. | $ 4.76 |
| Amanda's Home on the Range. (same as above) 24 pg. | $ 5.56 |
| Amanda's New Life. (same as above) 20 pg. | $ 5.56 |
| Cut and Make Old-Time Circus Paper Toys. | $ 3.16 |
| Dolly Dingle. (looks like the Campbell Soup girl) | $ 3.96 |
| Favorite Storybook Characters. | $ 2.66 |
| Old Fashioned Children. | $ 3.96 |
| Teddy Bears. | $ 3.96 |
| Wedding Fashions. | $ 3.96 |
| Wooden Abacus, with Red and White Ceramic Beads. | $13.49 |
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