[My son loves buildings, especially if they are old. These books give significant attention to one or more building.]

• Iggy Peck, Architect
• Eloise [The Plaza!]
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
• The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Betsy-Tacy; Betsy, Tacy, & Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace [Tib's chocolate-colored house]
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald [Mrs. P-W's upside-down house]
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren [Pippi's crazy house]
• The Boxcar Children (#1) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Giraffe, The Pelly, and Me by Roald Dahl
• The Five Little Peppers by Margaret Sidney (the Little Brown House!)
• Magic or Not, by Edward Eager
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• The Thyme Garden by Edward Eager
• The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
• The House of Arden by E. Nesbit
• Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik
• The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce