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. 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.
