绘本故事《The Little House 《小房子》》- 适合8-10岁,5-7岁,11-14岁,自然环保

绘本《The Little House 《小房子》》，Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

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小房子每天站在山冈上看风景，除了日月星辰和四季的变化，小房子还看到乡村的景物随着挖马路、开商店、盖高楼、通地下铁……而一点一点地改变。结果，小雏菊和苹果树不见了，取而代之的是都市的乌烟瘴气和行色匆匆的人们。还好，小房子的主人的后代发现了小房子，把她移到了乡下，她又可以静静地欣赏大自然的风景了。
《小房子》问世已经有70年了，获得过1943年的凯迪克金奖。今天人们谈论它最多的，还是它对现代文明的担忧和批判。急剧膨胀的都市，宛如一头长驱直入的怪兽，转瞬间就吞噬了小房子、吞噬了丘陵和丘陵上的雏菊和苹果树……即便是结尾，尽管小房子得救了，重新在一片长着小雏菊和苹果树的丘陵上找到了归宿，但还是留下了一个悬念，又有谁能保证它永远不再被现代文明吞噬呢？
这是一个美丽的故事，也是一个弥漫着伤感的故事。让孩子体会到大自然的美好、了解城市的建设过程，从而更加热爱环境、热爱生命。

“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.” So begins Virginia Lee Burton’s classic The Little House, 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 “the field of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight.” 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. (Ages 3 to 6)