Buttercup Hill

By Eileen M. Berry

Subjects: Neighborliness, Gardens, Rabbits, Pride and vanity, Fiction

Description: One house in the sunshine at the top of the hill. One house in the shade at the bottom of the hill. Why would anyone want to live in a dark house with thorn trees all around it? Mrs. Fleet and her son, Hopkin, decide to find out. Mrs. Fleet and her son, whose house atop a sunny hill is surrounded by flowers, want to help the Flops, their neighbors who live in darkness at the bottom of the hill, without hurting their pride. - Publisher.