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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books from childhood this story remains timeless.  This &quot;little house&quot; began its life in a bucolic, country setting and over time its integrity becomes threatened by encroaching development and neglect. For children, the concept of time is difficult to process.  This sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23795393">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a classic example of a carefully, meaningfully politicized picture book. The little house, sturdily built during a simpler age, loves her life in the country but harbors a strong curiosity of what it might be like to live in the city. Her curiosity is satisfied, with potentially devastating ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43035546">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A story about change, wanting what you don’t have, and enjoying the simple pleasures in life.  The Little House is a pretty pink home in the country that enjoys watching the sun during the day and the moon and stars at night, as well as the seasons go by and the children that occupy it get older. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67836622">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm at my parents' house re-reading some of my childhood books, trying to decide if they're as good as I remember. So far, they are. What's different is that I now imagine that I can deconstruct the social messages encoded in these charming tales for wee ones. This one is a pretty good polemic again...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46113071">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My memories of this book are still so strong.  I originally received this book as a birthday present for my 4th birthday, 1974.  I can still see my grandmother's inscription on the inside cover, With Love, Grandmother and Grandfather, 1974.   <br/><br/>I spent hours just looking at the pictures, e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71421714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my all time favorite book as a very young child! The pictures and words are beautifully interwoven and initially depict the natural cycles that the &quot;little house&quot; watches every day. Later, the little house observes the inevitable march of &quot;progress&quot; from horse and buggy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51764820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This story shows the progress of man as the house is surrounded more and more every year by the growing city.  As the years pass, the house deteriorates and seems to look ill from the smog and noise pollution that surrounds it.  Once the house is moved back to the country, it is revitalized and seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77090135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am starting to feel just like the little house in this book.  I live in a tiny cute little old cottage with a white picket fence in one of the oldest parts of town.  But it is also near the river, where there are warehouses and such, so it's kind of industrial as well.  So the developers have take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10734073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember the illustrations pretty clearly, because they were so beautiful and perfectly captivated the difference between country and suburban life. I felt genuinely sorry for the house, and could also remember thinking it must've been very scared and sick once the subway and railroads were fixed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78614629">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember my Mom reading this book to me when I was a little girl, and not I get the fun of reading it to my own little girls and boy.  This charming house was built in hopes it would see the family's great, great grandkids living in it someday.  But when the little house longs for the city and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67127289">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[now this is a children's book. because the story features a single constant throughout (the little house), there is created a wonderful interaction between the reader and the book. it is more interactive than 'Where's Waldo?' which demands your interaction. this book is more fulfilling because one w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16626855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little house sees the changes of an area that goes from rural to urban in just a couple of generations. Neat thing:  the position of the little house on each page -- if it changed it was very slight. The house stays the same, everything around it changes. You can do a little reverse flip-book and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48839176">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Once upon a time there was a Little House way out in the country. She  was a pretty Little House and she was strong and well built.&quot; So begins Virginia  Lee Burton's classic <em>The Little House,</em> winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal  in 1943. The rosy-pink Little House, on a hill surrounded by apple trees, watches the days  go, by from the first apple blossoms in the spring through the winter snows. Always  faintly aware of the city's distant lights, she starts to notice the city encroaching on her  bucolic existence. First a road appears, which brings horseless carriages and then trucks  and steamrollers. Before long, more roads, bigger homes, apartment buildings, stores, and  garages surround the Little House. Her family moves out and she finds herself alone in  the middle of the city, where the artificial lights are so bright that the Little House can no  longer see the sun or the moon. She often dreams of &quot;the field of daisies and the  apple trees dancing in the moonlight.&quot; Children will be saddened to see the lonely,  claustrophobic, dilapidated house, but when a woman recognizes her and whisks her back  to the country where she belongs, they will rejoice. Young readers are more likely to be  drawn in by the whimsical, detailed drawings and the happy ending than by anything  Burton might have been implying about the troubling effects of urbanization. <em>(Ages 3  to 6)</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd forgotten what a charming story this is. Maybe I appreciate it more now in middle age than when I was a kid. (I don't even remember this book as a kid, now that I think about it.)<br/><br/>I enjoyed how the book depicts the transitions of the months, the seasons, and the inventions of a growin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58604452">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like others, I also remember loving this book as a child.  A story of change, the illustrations express a passage of time, as the Little House lives through different seasons and the country land around her slowly changes into a city.  I was fascinated with these detailed and colorful pictures, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52450725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book as a child and recently rediscovered it while nannying.  It's a beautiful story of an old-fashioned house that slowly gets crowded out and forgotten by the big city.  The illustrations beautifully depict the growing cacophony of city life. This book makes me want to move to the cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52508336">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first books I remember as a child, the story of a little house that has a large city grow around it over time, but is saved and restored in the end. The illustrations have particularly stuck with me over the years; I used to pour over them as a child and dream I lived in the house. ]]></body>
    
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