In a new children’s book, a little engine learns that an “I-think-I-can” attitude isn’t always enough to get past different obstacles in life.
A staple of U.S. elementary school classrooms, The Little Engine That Could has taught kids for generations about resilience in the face of struggle. The moral of the classic story, about a plucky locomotive that makes its way through an arduous mountain journey by repeating “I-think-I-can, I-think-I-can” (to the cadence of a chugging steam train) fosters the idea that, through hard work and a can-do attitude, anyone can achieve anything.
