Praise for The Perfectly Orderly House

"The enormous house and the Old Woman's logic about organizing things often border on the ridiculous while the problems she faces in the process are very recognizable. Children will enjoy the silliness quotient, helped along by Lloyd's (The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything) whimsical artwork, tightly rendered in colored ink." ~ Publisher's Weekly

 

Synopsis

The Old Woman's little bit of a house had become so crowded with all the things she wouldn't throw away, she could never find anything she needed. What she needs is a big, new house: a house with all of the rooms in the order of the alphabet. 'Everything that starts with A will go in the A room. Everything that starts with B will go in the B room. That will be orderly,' she declares. So her brother Sam builds the house, starting with the Attic (for aprons and apples); the Basement (for bowls and butter); the Closet (for the cat and the canary)...By the time Same fences in the Yard and the Zoo, there's a place for everything, and everything is in it's place. But the house is so big, it takes the Old Woman twice as long to find everything!

 

The Perfectly Orderly House was published in 1994 by Henry Holt and Co. The Illustrations are by Megan Lloyd.

 

The book is a simple picture book which always makes me laugh because the Old Woman is so much like Ms. Kindt McKenzie. The story is charming and silly and definitely worth reading.