House Finds a Home
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Reminiscent of the children’s classic The Little House comes a picture book about a house and how the world changes both outside and inside of it over generations.
House has always loved the people inside. When they move out, House’s halls grow quiet, his windows dark. He hopes with all his shingles that there will be other inhabitants and joys to discover. As generations pass, House experiences new people and traditions and learns that love can come in many forms.
Reminiscent of the beloved children’s classic The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton, Katy S. Duffield’s lyrical, heartwarming text and Jen Corace’s exquisite illustrations bring warmth and vulnerability to the different ways a house becomes a home.
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A small house alternates heartbreak and happiness as multiple generations of residents fill his rooms with love in this cozy picture book. "House and his people/ had made a mountain of memories—// Song by song./ Giggle by giggle./ Hug by hug," Duffield writes. When the homeowners depart, House's heart feels "as empty as his rooms," until new owners arrive. As the cycle repeats, House learns to embrace the adage "when one door closes, another door opens." Matching the text's polish, Corace's diminutive dollhouse-style cutaways, rendered in gouache, ink, and pencil, add a narrative layer via art that depicts the period-specific lifestyles of varying occupants, presented with varied skin tones. Record albums occupy the first family, a box TV entertains the next, and later residents install a peace-sign-adorned flag, until a final family, intergenerational and interracial, joyously brings the story full circle, "song by song./ Giggle by giggle./ Hug by hug." Ages 3–7.
