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Summary: A book that stays with you through the years
Review: I loved this book as a child---loved seeing the city gradually swallow up the house, and then seeing it get its freedom once again. I think I learned important concepts from the book too---that the same place can somehow become a very different place over time, and that we can recreate what is lost if we try hard enough. My son loves this book too, but for very different reasons---he loves it that the city scenes have trains in them! I'm just glad he will listen to all of it with me--always so nice with a book so fondly remembered.
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Summary: Better Than I Remembered It!
Review: I remember my elementary school librarian reading this book to us, and after that, I checked it out as often as I could! For 30 years, every time I've seen a house with huge buildings on either side looking oddly out of place, I've thought of this book. When I stumbled on it the book store, I thought, "There's no way my boys are going to like this, but I'm going to buy it for them anyway!" What a pleasant surprise when they LOVED it! It has introduced them to lovely and old-fashioned words like "horseless carriage" and "steam shovel" and "brook." The book has a such a pleasant and unrushed pace--we just love reading it!
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Summary: A dose of much-needed calm
Review: My two and a half year old spends most of his time dashing from one thing to another at high speed...thank goodness he's fallen in love with The Little House. It gives us both fifteen minutes of much-needed calm every time we read it together. The illustrations are beautiful, the language simple and poetic, and the message is one I hope my son remembers. I know I do...this was one of my favorite books when I was little.
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Summary: As timeless as ever-among the finest of all picture books
Review: Quite simply, this is one of the most beautifully illustrated childrens books of all time. There are no computer graphics, but the simple illustrations have a definite folksy, Americana feel about them. The pages where Burton depicts the changing seasons are gorgeous, and have lost none of their vivacity. I can't imagine not always having a copy of this book around to show my nephews and nieces, and to read to them. It's a keeper, and I will gladly go through tens of copies just to ensure it's always around.Kids love the book because of the picture, and the great sequencing. I love the book because it's just well written, and I have memories of having it read to me when I was in kindergarten. This has always been one of my mother's favorite books, and it's also been one of mine as well. I think this book ages rather well, and it's an interesting look at the growth and development of the country. Some may see this book as being "anti-development", but it's hard not to sympathize with the house as the landscape around her changes and becomes less familiar. My last thought is that I hope when I do have nephews and nieces that there still will be countrysides like the ones depicted in this book.
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Summary: The Little House
Review: The Little House is about a little house that is built with care and is lived in until a city grows around it. The little house always wanted to live in the city until it actually happens. It teaches that you should be careful about what you wish for. I think the age level is around 7-9 years. The book was ok it was kind of boring
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Summary: Childhood Classic
Review: The Little House is an endearing story depicting the journey of a little house from a quiet, simpler time through the modern jungle and finally back "home" again. This classic belongs in the personal library of every child. Children will love the pictures, especially the little house's almost "human-like" features that transform from "sad" to "happy". Parents will appreciate the interpretation of the "there is no place like home" lesson.
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Summary: The Best!
Review: The little house is the best, I really enjoy how it changes the surroundings of the house through the years and then finally gets moved out into the country again. This is a great book for any child.
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Summary: Favorite Childhood Bedtime Story
Review: The Little House was my favorite bedtime story, so the book's illustrations bring back memories of a happy childhood. I remember my mom reading it to me endless numbers of times. Although I did not know who wrote the book, the vivid illustrations in the book and the author's text made me realize that this little house had just as much feeling as we humans do. Just watching the serene countryside where this house stood gradually transformed into a big city filled with noise and pollution causes this little house to feel just as disappointed with urban sprawl as we humans do and to yourn for a more simpler life in the countryside. This a most a heartwarming tale of survival. In a phoenixlike fashion, the author shows that although the house eventaully becomes delapidated and forgotten, the house is eventually rescued by a descendant of the building's original owner and returned to the more peaceful life in the countryside that this house once knew.
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Summary: A little house yearns for the trees and hills of its past.
Review: The noted children's book about a house built on a hill away from any town. As the years pass, the city comes closer and closer and eventually surrounds the little house which misses its old hills and trees. One earlier reviewer expressed concern about the apparent anti-urban bias. I think Burton simply had a pro-nature bias rather than anti-urban. And, I think any of us, including those who live in cities or suburbia would not care to live in the sprawl that was depicted in the illustrations and was indeed present in many cities in the 1940s when the book first came out. The book won the 1943 Caldecott Medal for best illustration in a book for children.
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Summary: Careful what you ask for
Review: The story of The Little House Her Story was a story wonderful to use in many age groups and for many ways in a classroom. The story sends a message of being careful what you wish for and about family values. The grandfather cared for his family so much that he wanted to make sure this house would last a lifetime. He built it so that noone could take away a gift that would outlast his time on Earth. Outside of that idea, you also have the idea of the house wanting more for herself and becoming uncomfortable. Then when she gets to move to the city as she hoped, all she did was hope for her peace and quiet back that she had in the country. This lesson is very important in any stage of a child or adults life. There are a million activities one could do with this book and as a a teacher, I would have students look up the history of their house and find out all the neat little things you just never think about. This book was wonderfully written and perfectly illustrated.
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