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Some of the published credits of Marian Potter include The Little Red Hen and Other Stories to Color (Super Coloring Book), The Little Red Caboose (210-61), Mark Makes His Move, and The Shared Room. There's no reason for the little red caboose to be male, but in the picture of mountain climbers there's a woman, and women / girls are shown throughout all the places that boys are. Marian Potter is a published author of childrens books. He went on to become one of the most prolific early illustrators of Little Golden Books. TiborGergely was born in Hungary in 1900 and emigrated to the US in 1939. Gender isn't as bad, and is better than other contemporaneous books. Marian Potter wrote the classic Little Golden Book The Little Red Caboose, published in 1953. Definitely something to discuss if you read this to a little kid. So, portrayal of race and ethnicity leaves out whole groups of peoples and portrays white and Native peoples in stereotyped ways. Don't mix this one up with 'The Little Engine That Could!', although nominally they are both about trains that come through in a crisis.Many crowd scenes of people - almost all of white people then one scene of Native Americans in traditional dress - teepees, etc. Otherwise, there's no real plot here - just scenes of the countryside that the train is going through. The little red caboose is at the end of the train but has a function to fulfill. The Little Red Caboose makes 'his' journey over the mountain and around the countryside.

The Little Red Caboose by Marian Potter