tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939909775405220345.post2594467971966160263..comments2024-03-01T10:16:11.283-08:00Comments on AmericanStudies: January 5, 2012: Mike Mulligan and His AmericaAmericanStudierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06483077716534996778noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939909775405220345.post-35754457698629458762012-10-19T02:59:13.430-07:002012-10-19T02:59:13.430-07:00Another of Burton's marvelous books is the Lit...Another of Burton's marvelous books is the Little House, in which a small Cape Cod with a sweet personality starts as a rural home and gets a city built around it. It's a meditation on urbanization, place, change, and home with a lot of the same colored-pencil bustle as Mike Mulligan. Both are among the few books to treat American infrastructure with such a matter-of-fact gaze.Tona Hhttp://tonahangen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939909775405220345.post-18380343699221123862012-01-05T10:56:27.786-08:002012-01-05T10:56:27.786-08:00I'd like to suggest several of William Steig&#...I'd like to suggest several of William Steig's children's books: Tiffky Doofky, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Gorky Rises, among others, for the way Steig incorporates the Polish/Jewish immigrant culture into American stories of family life, hopes and dreams, and the pathos of everyday life.Ilene Railtonnoreply@blogger.com