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K-3
In a saccharine tale that echoes Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House, the once-proud art-deco-style Little Skyscraper is slowly dwarfed by newer, bigger buildings until it is eventually preserved as a historic landmark. The illustrations, cartoonlike and naive, evoke a feeling of the fifties and sixties with their varied pastel palette.