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Precious Home
A house is a place for shelter and rest, a place for playing and working, and a place for a family to live and love. But a house in Thailand looks nothing like a house in Mongolia, and the houses in Togo don’t look like the houses in Russia. In each place, the people build their houses to accommodate climate, customs, and lifestyles, and end up with homes that vary in many ways. Readers will learn about houses all over the world, and delight in both their similarities and differences. Friendly diagrams with bite-sized explanations of why certain features appear in the houses make this an interactive book with high kid appeal.
- GenresPicture Books
36 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2017
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September 28, 2017
Anyone can buy a house but it takes love and care shared by the people and pets living inside to make it a real home. A home is a place for shelter from the elements, for resting peacefully, for playing and working hard, and a place for family members to share their love and happiness with each other each and every day.
Houses all over the world take on different shapes and sizes but it's the inhabitants within those houses that bring that special spirit of love and fulfillment into the shell of the structure to give it a soul that is unique to their own specific family.
The author and illustrator skillfully document houses in Thailand, Mongolia, Togo, Russia and Greenland making the book very educational and interactive to the wee young readers. Kid-friendly illustrations with interesting explanations of how that household thrives and survives make this book one that kids will come back to time and time again to learn more details about that particular home. This book would be a great asset in a classroom or elementary school library setting as well.
The author skillfully wraps up the book by saying...
"There are houses wherever people live.
Even though houses have different
appearances in every country, each one is
someone's precious home."
Houses all over the world take on different shapes and sizes but it's the inhabitants within those houses that bring that special spirit of love and fulfillment into the shell of the structure to give it a soul that is unique to their own specific family.
The author and illustrator skillfully document houses in Thailand, Mongolia, Togo, Russia and Greenland making the book very educational and interactive to the wee young readers. Kid-friendly illustrations with interesting explanations of how that household thrives and survives make this book one that kids will come back to time and time again to learn more details about that particular home. This book would be a great asset in a classroom or elementary school library setting as well.
The author skillfully wraps up the book by saying...
"There are houses wherever people live.
Even though houses have different
appearances in every country, each one is
someone's precious home."
February 7, 2018
Travel around the world and see into different kinds of homes. Despite at least one overlooked text typo, it was interesting to see layouts of these various structures and learning a bit more of their in and outs!
February 27, 2018
Great information on homes around the world-but could use some editing. There were some grammatical errors and typos (repetition of words and phrases in a sentence). The font was not consistent.
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