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Building Our House
Contributor(s): Bean, Jonathan (Author), Bean, Jonathan (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0374380236     ISBN-13: 9780374380236
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Art
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Country Life
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2012004993
Lexile Measure: 640
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 9.3" W x 12.1" (1.14 lbs) 48 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 156471
Reading Level: 3.8   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013

In this unique construction book for kids who love tools and trucks, 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. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is here. And at every step their lucky kids are watching and getting their hands dirty, in 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, and includes an afterword with photographs from the author's collection.


Contributor Bio(s): Bean, Jonathan: - JONATHAN BEAN received an M.F.A. from New York's School of Visual Arts and now lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, for At Night and Building Our House, he is also the illustrator of Big Snow, two picture books by Lauren Thompson, and Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood.Bean, Jonathan: - JONATHAN BEAN received an M.F.A. from New York's School of Visual Arts and now lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, for At Night and Building Our House, he is also the illustrator of Big Snow, two picture books by Lauren Thompson, and Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood.