The Little House

Virginia, Burton .(Author & Illustrator)
The Little House Cadelcott Winner
Massachusetts: Haughton Miffilin Co, 1942.

A little House withstands the test of time an the urban revolution. Join the little house as she both enjoys the seasons an braves the changing world.

Appropriate Age/Grade Level: 3rd - 6th Grade.

Evaluation Criteria
1. Content
The Little House teaches about seasons, outdoors, and the changing world. The change of transportation, growth, the fast paced life of urban and industrial change go on all around the Little House. This books faces the very real concepts of population, growth, an urbanization, that almost more applicable now then when the book was written in 1942. A book with a lot of words, I use this book for older elementary children. Children can experience the concept of urbanization through the Little House.

2. Illustrations
The cover of the book I feel is not that appealing for today's youth. A child may loose out on a good book due to the cover. The illustrations are colorful an show great details of the story, however for today's children I feel it may not engage them as it did children 40 years ago.

3. Theme
As the Little House stands firm the word all around changes. The story begins with the changing seasons an delights the imagination with details. Soon, the Little House withstand the changes of transportation, urban growth , population, noise, until finally Little House cannot even tell the change in seasons anymore. The theme is one of change.

Personal Reaction
This books did not hold my attention. The theme an how it was expressed through the Little House was darling an I loved the concept, however I felt there were far to many words and the illustrations lacked eye appeal, ironically for today's changing youth. However, I do appreciate the timelessness an consider The Little House to be a classic story told through the eyes of The Little House.

Discussion questions
1.Tell me about the seasons?
2.Can you think of a time when you had a lot of changes in your life?
3.What happened to Little House an why at the end of the story?