The Little House

By: Virginia Lee Burton

Published April 26th 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Company (first published 1942)

Category: Arts

Pages: 44 pages

ISBN: 9780395181560

Description:
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.