by Virginia Lee Burton
Lately I have found myself really wanting to read things about self-reliant people living a solitary life in a simpler way (other than one fanfiction, I haven't found exactly what I'm looking for), but this book sort of spoke to my reading want. The ebook copy I got from the library did have a fu...
Genre: Buildings / Time Year Published: 1942 Year Read: 1994 Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers 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...
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton Story about the differences you face between country and city life.
★★★★The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton Story about the differences you face between country and city life.
Anniversary edition of the Caldecott Medal-winning classic.
Story of a house and the city that grew up around it. The house eventually sits empty until someone comes to live in it and eventually move the house to the country. Although charming, the story did little for me.
A lot of picture books just don't age well - even Caldecott winners from time to time become so dated they're just not appealing to a modern audience anymore. Fortunately, that is not the case for this 1943 medal winner. The illustrations have that unmistakable 'vintage' look, but they're also tim...
A little house sees the changes of an area that goes from rural to urban in just a couple of generations. Neat thing: the position of the little house on each page -- if it changed it was very slight. The house stays the same, everything around it changes. You can do a little reverse flip-book and ...
*Incomplete Review-redo*I read this only a couple of years ago and I was...disappointed. The idea was very solid, I was looking forward to it because I'd heard so much about this book. It did not live up to my expectations. I can't be sure if it was just the illustrations I didn't like or the way th...
It's okay, but it didn't really grab us.
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