The House in the Meadow

Overview

Over in the meadow there's a spring wedding, with the couple's 10 best friends to celebrate. What's next?

• A house!
• 9 diggers,
• 8 masons,
• 7 carpenters,
• 6 well diggers,
• 5 roofers,
• 4 plumbers,
• 3 electricians,
• 2 painters, and
• 1 inspector

show up with all their trucks and tools to build a new house. And when the couple and their friends have a house-warming party, a new baby comes, too!

Inspired by Olive A. Wadsworth's old counting poem, Shutta Crum's exhuberant rhyme celebrates the fun of counting, the excitement of building a house, and the satisfaction of sharing work.

Author Biography

Shutta Crum writes books for children and poetry for adults. She is also a storyteller, a lecturer and a librarian. Several of her articles about teaching and writing have appeared in professional journals. In 2005, she was honoured by being one of eight authors invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll.
Paige Billin-Frye studied illustration and design at Washington University in St. Louis. Before she started illustrating books she designed department store ads, illustrated posters and magazine covers, and painted greeting cards for Hallmark. Now Paige works from her home in a neighbourhood filled with kids in Washington, DC where she live with her husband, two sons, one cat, lots of fish and a garden filled with flowers.