Happy New Year! It's another edition of Fuse 8 n' Kate which, at this rate, may be soon renamed The Random Facts About Koalas Show. With today's book Betsy sought out a classic with a strong female protagonist. Kate (and some of you out there) may contest whether or not this engine is, indeed, is the real deal. Or (and here the sisters butt heads) even female at all.

Source Notes:

- Koalas Fighting a.k.a. The sound of the devil. Wait for it, though. You don't hear the hellspawn that is the sound Kate was referring to until near the end of the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8oLu7znwQ0

-All the info Betsy conjures up about this book can be linked to #54 on the Top 100 Poll: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2009/04/11/top-100-picture-books-poll-results-55-51/

- Interested in this book? We suggest that you read Roy E. Plotnick's In Search of Watty Piper: A Brief History of the "Little Engine" Story published at The University of Illinois at Chicago: http://tigger.uic.edu/~plotnick/littleng.htm

- Read the full Source Notes for this episode here: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2018/01/02/fuse-8-n-kate-the-little-engine-that-could-by-watty-piper