the little house by virginia lee burton summary

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. 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. Here’s a real world example of that sort of thing: Incredible story behind squashed Aussie home PARATEXT An old man in a house won’t move as the world changes all around him. There’s a clear link between “The Little House” and Pixar’s animated children’s film Up (2009). See: The Little House (1952) on YouTube Mary Blair’s concept art for the Walt Disney short, The Little House 1952 Notice as you read the mention of the moon, linking something small on Earth to something universal. He mentions it because of course Charlotte’s Web is another example of a feminine, domestic, circular structure. Peter Neumeyer in his annotated guide to Charlotte’s Web. In The Little House, the curvilinear lines of the illustrations represent not only the gender of the female Little House, and her surroundings in good times, but also the cycles, return, and renewal, the generation and the continuity, and the affirmations of life that are the theme of the book. “The shape of a story” is, of course, a metaphorical phrase, but it is one that connotes profoundly. Circular plot shapes tend to have a feminine feel and star female characters (but not always).

The little house by virginia lee burton summary