Recs if you like The Little House...

Books that ride the line between peaceful solitude and poignant loneliness.

According to the ALA, "The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children."

defining childhood books that my mother read to me or encouraged me to read (which still hold up into adulthood). aka: the reasons I am the way I am