The Little House from the Sea (English and Swedish Edition) - Hardcover

Gedin, Birgitta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9129587700 ISBN 13: 9789129587708

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988

Synopsis

As it watches the ships, the flocks of geese, and the moon pass by year after year, a little house on a rocky island longs to be a ship to explore the other side of the horizon

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A small boat, wrecked in a storm, is salvaged and from its lumber a house is built. The little house, with views of the sea in all directions, harbors this memory only in the form of a longing to sail "to" the horizon. When he convinces the North Wind to blow him into the sea, the little house, in the ensuing gale, faces the terrible memories of his past. Left alone once more, he finds a friend in a cormorant who has been dropping philosophical hints as to the nature of horizon-searching. The opening lines of this story hold a promise of poignancy in the little house's plight. But the story has lapses of sentimentalism, and jarring anthropomorphized imagessuch as the tears running down the house's windows. That abrupt element is also found in one of the pictures, of the North Wind, with an eyeball and pursed lips, blowing up a storm. But most of the watercolors are done in spare, light-filled brushstrokes that keenly reflect the longing of the tale. Ages 3-up.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9129587700
• ISBN 13: 9789129587708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pettersson Petter
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32