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Building Our House

Building Our House - Hardcover

by Jonathan Bean
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan Bean, Jonathan Bean (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2013-01-08Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)ISBN-13:9780374380236ISBN-10:374380236UPC:9780374380236Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Art, Family, LifestylesBook Topic:Country LifeAward:2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winner - Picture Book Award|2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book - Picture Book Text Award|2014 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Seven to Ten Award|2015 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee - Grades K-3 Award|2016 Monarch Award Nominee - Grades K-3 AwardSize:12.10 x 9.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SC2KHAZPKK

Perfect for the little builders in your life, this warm-hearted and unique picture book is all about "building a house and turning it into a home" (Publishers Weekly), inspired by award-winning author-illustrator Jonathan Bean's own childhood.

In this can't-miss book for kids who love tools, trucks, and all things construction-related, readers join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in town and set out to build a new one in the country. Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up, with a helping hand from their lucky kiddos. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is captured here--page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities!

As he imagines it through the eyes of his older sister, Building Our House is Jonathan Bean's retelling of his own family's true experience building their home, and includes an author's note with real-life family photographs.

"Raise the roof for this picture book. It's something special." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Did you love Building Our House? Then pick up a copy of This Is My Home, This Is My School, another autobiographically inspired picture book from Jonathan Bean about the special rhythms and routines of a homeschooling family.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)ISBN-13:9780374380236ISBN-10:374380236UPC:9780374380236Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Art, Family, LifestylesBook Topic:Country LifeAward:2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winner - Picture Book Award|2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book - Picture Book Text Award|2014 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Seven to Ten Award|2015 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee - Grades K-3 Award|2016 Monarch Award Nominee - Grades K-3 AwardSize:12.10 x 9.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SC2KHAZPKK

JONATHAN BEAN received an M.F.A. from New York's School of Visual Arts and now lives and works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His first book, At Night, won the 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and he is also the illustrator of two acclaimed picture books by Lauren Thompson, The Apple Pie That Papa Baked and One Starry Night. Jonathan's parents still live in the house the family built, outside of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

Awards

🏆 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winner - Picture Book Award|2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book - Picture Book Text Award|2014 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Seven to Ten Award|2015 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee - Grades K-3 Award|2016 Monarch Award Nominee - Grades K-3 Award

Contributor(s)

Jonathan Bean, Jonathan Bean (Illustrator)

Author

Jonathan Bean

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