num_pages: 40
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.
language: English
title: The Little House
titlecomplete: The Little House
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Kids, Picture Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Family, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 41069
awards: awardedAt: -852051600000
name: Caldecott Medal
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company