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Work InformationA House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is more clever and educational than many classics of kids' writing for the same age group. Very entertaining and witty, with rich illustrations that might cause some adults to go "whoa, creepy", but I loved this sort of psychedelic art as a kid. An easy book to dismiss, but I'm totally hooked on it. I'm surprised this didn't win a Caldecott, at least an Honor, back in the day. I love how it starts out fairly straightforward, good for the littler children, but rewards the child who is patient enough to read through to the end with more and more fanciful creativity. The pictures are indeed marvelous - bright and clear, but still intricate and rich. The only problem that I have is on the page that includes the line trashcans are houses for garbage" and some perfectable salvageable stuff is being thrown away, like a doll that is just dirty, and a wonderful rocking horse with a single broken leg. I'd suggest this is careless, but the last line of the book is "And the earth is a house for us all." Well, not if we don't repair, recycle, etc...." no reviews | add a review
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Lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things. No library descriptions found. |
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Awards: National Book Award(1983)