Next, the small houses are replaced by tenements and apartments. This is followed by roadside stands, gas stations, and more little houses. The house watches the seasons pass, and wonders about the lights of the city, which grow ever closer.Įventually, a road is built in front of the house. Her builder decrees that she "may never be sold for gold or silver", but is built sturdy enough to one day see his great-great-grandchildren's great-great-grandchildren living in her. The story centers on a house built at the top of a small hill, far out in the country. Primitive man thought in pictures, not in words, and this visual conception is far more fundamental than its sophisticated translation into verbal modes of thought". "If the page is well drawn and finely designed, the child reader will acquire a sense of good design which will lead to an appreciation of beauty and the development of good taste. Being a very visually driven book, many times Burton changed the amount of text to fit the illustration. Burton denied it was a critique of urban sprawl, but instead wished to convey the passage of time to younger readers. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1943.Īuthor Virginia Lee Burton has stated that "The Little House was based on our own little house which we moved from the street into a field of daisies with apple trees growing around". The Little House is a 1942 children's picture book written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton.
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