The house moved

Returning home, the boy of Syoma did not find at home. Where did he disappear?
Agnia Barto told the children about a real Moscow event. And the famous cartoonist Konstantin Rotov beat every line of her poem in a cheerful plot.
Most Agniy Barto verses are written for children - preschoolers or younger schoolchildren. The style is very easy, it is easy to read and remember even the kids. The author, as it were, speaks with a child in a simple everyday language, without lyrical digressions and descriptions - but in rhyme. And the conversation leads with little readers, as if the author of their same age.
The poem The House moved is dedicated to the movement of house No. 5/6 on Serafimovich Street in Moscow, which interfered with the construction of a large stone bridge in 1937. A feature of this movement was the need for the rise of the building (weight of 7,500 tons) to a height of 1.87 m. Nevertheless, the movement occurred without resettlement of residents