by Robert Lawson
[Still reading children's books. Why we have them around is covered in this review. Short version: children's reading program, public schools.] You may immediately recognize - if not the name Robert Lawson - then the style of illustration (images below). The really popular book of Lawson's (when k...
A story about the little animals that live on the Hill. The House on the Hill hasn't had any people living on it and is falling apart. The animals find out that new people are coming and the book follows them as they wonder about the new owners and how they will treat the animals of the Hill. It was...
Re-read, first time in many years. It continues to interest me that many of my deeply held principles are explicit in books I read as a child. Here, the garden many times larger than needed by the folks eating from it is encountered. No traps, no poison, enough to share. I know that it was reinforce...
“New Folks coming…new Folks coming into the Big House!” That’s the cry of every Animal on Rabbit Hill. The Animals are filled with excitement…and fear. Will the new people bring a new prosperity to the house and the hill? Or will they bring danger?Not to give away too much, but the charm of the stor...