The House on the Hill
Christin Couture 1991
Christin Couture once again taps into childrens' natural curiosity and desire to discover the world around them. Our other book of hers was about a band of kids delving into nature. This one is about an empty old house on the hill just begging to be explored.
This could easily be a spooky story, but instead there's a sweetness to how the children wander through the rooms, marveling and enjoying each space. My grandma in upstate New York told me that when she was a little girl there was an abandoned house (the old woman who lived there had died and the house sat empty but still furnished with all of her things). My grandma would often go there to play and have tea parties with the dishes, always cleaning up and putting things away afterwards. What a dream to find a place like this as a kid!
The insides of houses and rooms are some of my favorite illustrations and these are done beautifully (I actually thought they were Barbara Cooney at first glance)!
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