Even if the child isn’t a train buff, they might become one after receiving this dynamic duo. Give them a copy of the book The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper along with a red and yellow engine by Brio. As the child chants “I think I can, I think I can” he or she can make the little engine go forward or backward, working its way along wooden tracks with cars held on magnetically behind. The engine's bright headlight forms the beacon of determination—the very quality exalted in the book.