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Title:The Little House
Author:Virginia Lee Burton
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Weekly Reader Edition
Pages:Pages: 40 pages
Published:April 26th 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Company (first published 1942)
Categories:Childrens. Picture Books
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The Little House Hardcover | Pages: 40 pages
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Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad when she’s surrounded by the dirty, noisy city’s hustle and bustle: “She missed the field of daisies / and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight.” Fortunately, there’s a happy ending, as the house is taken back to the country where she belongs.

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Original Title: The Little House
ISBN: 0395181569 (ISBN13: 9780395181560)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Caldecott Medal (1943)

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Although from a narrational and textual consideration, I have tended to find in particular author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton's rather detailed and minute descriptions of the increasing urban spread surrounding the "Little House" a bit monotonous and repetitive, for the most part, her Caldecott Medal winning The Little House glowingly presents both an aesthetically stunning, visually pleasant and also astutely representational marriage of text and accompanying images (with especially her

I have been going through some books from my childhood and I have stumbled upon this great gem called The Little House. The Little House is a Caldecott Medal award winning book by Virginia Lee Burton and it is about how a small house learns the true meaning of Theres no place like home when a growing civilization is built around it over the years. The Little House is definitely a gem that you cannot afford to miss!When I first read this book when I was little, I thought it was a bit boring about

This is one of the few Caldecott winners published before the 70's that I think could win if it was published today. Such a good little book.

This is a classic example of a carefully, meaningfully politicized picture book. The little house, sturdily built during a simpler age, loves her life in the country but harbors a strong curiosity of what it might be like to live in the city. Her curiosity is satisfied, with potentially devastating results, when the city encroaches on her countryside home. Burton's tale relies on an almost universal acceptance of the pastoral ideal, and her message about the cost of rampant urbanization is told

Extremely cute book! I really enjoyed it :) It really shows how you shouldn't take your life for granted because one day it could completely change.

This is one of the best children's book I have ever read!Simple but elegant drawings and simple but meaningful wordings.The little house lives happily at the countryside, until a highway is built next to it and suddenly the city expands around it.This book is a wonderful way to show to the little children:1. How things evolve and nothing stays the same for long.2. The fact that no matter how things change, you still can choose a different way.Little house was sad and lost for a while, but it was

This is one of those books that embeds itself in your memory forever. I read it once or twice as a child at the library but never saw it again after that until I spotted it at a bookstore last year and just had to buy my own copy. It is a simple story about a well-loved house that survives generations and generations, first being built in the country and observing simple life and season changes around it. Over time a town pops up, which later turns into a city, which later turns into a dirty,