The Little House Book & Cd: A Caldecott Award Winner (Read-Along) Audio Cassette – Audiobook, September 24, 2007

When I was a little girl, my mother often took us to the public library to let us check out our own books. One of my absolute favorites was "The Little House" by Virginia Lee Burton. What a thrill it was to find it again nearly 50 years later -- and to discover the magic was still there!As its title implies, "The Little House" is the story of a house in the middle of the countryside. For many years, the house stayed content in the same spot, watching the seasons go by -- until development comes along, turning the country roads into streets, the farmhouses into tract housing, tract housing into apartments and apartments into high rises -- leaving the little house dwarfed and neglected amidst the tall buildings, traffic and hustle-bustle of the city. Without giving away the rest of the story, there is a happy ending for the little house!Equally charming as the story are the illustrations, also done by Virginia Lee Burton. It shows the house in basically the same spot throughout most of the book as the world changes around her. She even gives the house some character using the windows as her "eyes" and the two front steps as her "mouth" -- and you feel sorry for her as she becomes more and more forgotten.Even though the story was written 70 years ago, it is still just as relevant today as it was then -- especially as more and more of our open spaces are being taken over by development. (Maybe that's why I still feel a little sad whenever I see new housing in previously unspoiled land.) And "The Little House" was also where I first learned about the changing of the seasons!Along with this edition of the book is an audio CD of the story, both with and without page-turn signals, as well as a forward by Burton's son!I highly recommend this timeless tale!

My favorite childhood book! Worth the wait. Well package and stayed completely dry despite the torrential rain we are experiencing.

This was one of my wife’s favorite books when she was a child, many years ago. She wanted me to try to find it on the Internet for our first grandchild. I looked first on Amazon, of course, and found it.It brought tears to my wife's eyes when she re-read it. I’d never seen or heard of it before. Well, it brought tears to my eyes, too. It’s a wonderful book, both the drawings and the text. It won all kinds of awards when it first came out, and you can see why when you read it.I’m going to buy a couple more copies because maybe we will have a couple more grandchildren. And I’d like to keep a copy here in my Little House.

When I was a child in the early 90's, I found this book for the first time at my grandma's house. I loved it then, and it left an impression with me. Now that I have 5 small children of my own, I felt that we should have this in their book collection. It's a sweet little story about how things change, and this little house stays put as the big city takes over the landscape in the background, then over the decades you get to see the city envelope the little house. Pretty soon the little house is surrounded by sky scrapers and elevated trains. Then, at the end, someone buys the house and moves it back out into the country. It's a sweet little book.

This was a treasured book from my childhood and wanted to get a copy for my grandson. Even though I still have my original copy it is completely falling apart. Finding a 70th anniversary edition with a CD was a bonus. There are options to have the book read to you with page turn signals or you can just listen to it as is. While this is no substitute for cuddling with your child and reading a book together while absorbing and discussing the illustrations, the CD option is great for use in the car or as a guide to beginning readers.

This is one of my favorite books from childhood. I purchased for a cousin's child. I hope she enjoys is as much as I did! When I see this book I am back in my mom's lap laying on her bed reading.

The Little House is one of my childhood favorites, so that is why I purchased it on my Kindle. However, I do not like the way the text "repeats" itself on the Kindle version. I guess they did it this way to be sure the text was large enough to read and then still be able to show the original page set-up. But I found it disrupted the flow of the book to read this way. Although I have enjoyed the presentation of other children's books on my Kindle Fire, the hard copy version of this book remains my favorite for this one.

This has been one of my all-time favorite stories since just after it was first published. It became beloved by my children as well. Unfortunately, the theme of rampant, uncontrolled, development is just as relevant today as it was when I was a child. At least this story has a happy ending, but it does give children insight into the downside of poor urban/suburban planning and an appreciation for the wonders of "the country" in a very gentle way through this lovely story.