The Little House - Read Aloud w/ Music & EFX

Today's

read

aloud

is the story of a beautiful country

house

that is enveloped by the city that grows around it. The

house

has an expressive face of windows and doors and even the feelings of a person, so it is sad when surrounded by dirty noise. town fortunately there is a happy ending as the house is taken back to the country virginia lee burton's

little

house once upon a time there was a

little

house in the country it was a pretty little house and it was strong and well built the man who built it so well said that this little house will never be sold for gold or silver and will live to see our great-great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren living in it.

The little house was very happy as it sat on the hill and looked out over the countryside. All around him he watched the sun rise in the morning and watched the sunset in the afternoon, day after day, each one a little different from the last, but the little house stayed the same through the night he watched the moon grow from a thin new one. the moon to a full moon and then back to a thin old moon and when there was no moon he looked at the stars in the distance he could see the lights of the city the little house he was curious about the city and he wondered what it would be like to live there Time passed quickly for the little house as he watched the countryside slowly change with the seasons in the spring, when the days grew longer and the sun warmer, he waited for the first southern robin to return and watched the grass grow softer. turned green.

She watched as the tree's buds swelled and the apple trees bloomed. She watched the children play in the creek on the long summer days. She sat in the sun and watched as the trees covered themselves with leaves and the white daisies covered the hill. The gardens grew and he saw the apples turn red and ripen, he saw the children swimming in the pool in the fall, when the days became shorter and the nights colder, he saw the first frost turn the leaves bright yellow, orange and red, observed the He gathered the harvest and they gathered the apples.

She watched the children return to school in the winter, when the nights were long and the days short and the countryside covered in snow. He watched the children slide and skate year after year, the old apple trees and the new ones. The children grew up and went to the city and now at night the lights of the city seemed brighter and closer. One day the little house was surprised to see a horseless carriage coming down the winding country road. Very soon there was more of them on the road and fewer horse-drawn carriages, soon enough some surveyors came and examined a line in front of the little house, soon enough a steam shovel came and dug a path through the daisy-covered hill, then came some trucks and threw large stones on the road then some trucks with pebbles then some trucks with tar and sand and finally a road roller came and flattened everything and the road was made now the little house watched the trucks and cars coming and going to the gas stations on the road. city ​​The roadside posts and small houses follow the new path, everyone and everything moved much faster now than before.

More roads were built and the countryside was divided into many more houses and larger houses. Apartments and tenement houses. Schools. Shops and garages scattered across the grounds and crowded. The little house no longer wanted to live in it and take care of it, he couldn't sell it for gold or silver, so he just stayed there and watched, now it wasn't so quiet and peaceful at night, now the city lights were on. bright and very close and the street lights shined all night he must have been living in the city not in the little house and he didn't know if he liked it or not he missed the fields of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight very soon There were trams coming and going in front of the little house they came and went all day and part of the night everyone seemed to be very busy and everyone seemed to be in a hurry, very soon an elevated train appeared coming and going above the little house the air was full of dust and smoke and the noise was so loud it shook the little house now I couldn't tell when spring came or summer or fall or winter everything looked more or less the same this train is the next stop Very soon there was a subway going and As she came she couldn't see it but she could feel it and hear it.

The people moved faster and faster and no one noticed the little house. They hurriedly passed by without looking. Very soon they demolished the apartment, houses and tenement houses around the small house and began to dig large basements, one on each side, the steam shovels dug three stories on one side and four stories on the other side, very soon they began to build, they built 25 stories on one side and 35 stories on the other now the little house only saw the sun at noon and She didn't see the moon or the stars at night because the city lights were too bright.

She didn't like living in the city at night like she used to. She dreamed of the countryside and the field of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the light of the moon the little house was very sad and lonely its paint was cracked and dirty its windows were broken and its shutters hung crooked it seemed dilapidated although it was just as good a house as ever underneath then one beautiful spring morning the great-great-granddaughter of the man who built the little house arrived so good that she saw the little house in poor condition but she didn't rush there was something in the little house that made her stop and look again she told her husband that little house looks like the little house my grandmother lived in when she was a child only that one little house was in the country on a hill covered with daisies and apple trees growing around it.

They found it. It turned out that it was the same house, so they went to the moving company to see if the little house could be moved. The moving company looked at the whole house and said, "this house is as good as ever, it's so well built that we can move it anywhere." They lifted the little house and put it on wheels. Traffic was stopped for hours as she was slowly taken out of the city. At first he was scared of the little house, but after he got used to it, he quite liked it. They rolled along the main road. and they rolled along the paths until they entered the countryside when the little house saw the green grass and heard the birds singing it no longer felt sad they went on and on but they didn't seem to find just the right place they tried the little house here and they tried it there they finally saw a small hill in the middle of a field and the apple tree is growing there said the great-granddaughter that is the place yes she said the little house for herself The saleswoman was dug up at the top of the hill and they slowly moved the house from the On the way up the hill, they fixed the windows and shutters and once again painted it a beautiful shade of pink as the little house sat on its new foundation, she smiled.

Happily, once again, she could see the sun, the moon and the stars again, she could see spring, summer, autumn and winter, come and go, once again she would be inhabited and cared for, she would never again be curious about the world. city, I would never want to live there again the stars were shining above it a new moon was rising it was spring and everything was calm and peaceful in the countryside