The Way to Wyatt's House

by Nancy White Carlstrom, Mary Morgan (Illustrator), Mary Morgan-Vanroyen (Illustrator)

Silent as mice, two siblings tiptoe out the door. Softly they make their way through the woods. Lightly they swish their way through the tall meadow grass to their friend Wyatt's house. At the edge of a farm, the sounds of the morning are about to change. Wyatt has spotted them from the farmhouse window, and there's nothing quiet about Wyatt!With Wyatt around all that's hushed bursts into loud. The children and all the farm animals leave morning behind and jump into a very happy and boisterous day. And when all the banging and booming subsides, Daddy arrives to drive them the sleepy, quiet way home.

Endearing pictures and a sparse text full of sounds celebrate the simple joys and exuberance of childhood. A great read-aloud book, sure to be requested again and again.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Library Binding

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Nancy White Carlstrom has written more than 50 books for children, including the Jesse Bear series with illustrator Bruce Degan.

Born the daughter of steel mill worker William J. and Eva (Lawrence) White, Nancy White Carlstrom was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, on August 4, 1948. She practiced writing poetry, enjoyed reading books like Little Women, and wanted to become a children’s book author at an early age. Carlstrom worked in the children’s department of her local library in Washington during her high school years. She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, majoring in Elementary Education and earning her B.A. in 1970, also studying at Harvard Extension School and Radcliffe from 1974 to 1976. In September of 1974, she married David R. Carlstrom, later a pilot and a marketing director at Fairbanks International Airport. They had two children—Jesse and Joshua.

She draws inspiration from her 18 years living in Alaska, volunteer experiences in Africa and Haiti, and raising her two sons.

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a very special book - the way the language reads and the illustrations evoke the feelings of being quiet and close up and then big and loud and expanded. Nancy White Carlstrom writes in a lovely and lyrical way - we have bought this book over again as gifts.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 2 out of 5]

This starts out with two children heading out very quietly walking through the woods and meadow being quiet seeing things you wouldn't see if you were loud to get to their neighbor's house. When they come over the hill Wyatt sees them and becomes very loud yelling at them in his excitement. They everything on the farm becomes loud. Each animal has their own noises and what they like to do to play. until their Daddy comes after them at the end of the day.

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was kinda cute. Some kids are going to their friend Wyatt's house and they experience the difference between quiet and loud as well as discover lots of sounds. My son had fun mimicking the different noises.