Let's Go Home: The Wonderful Things About a House

I love the Rylant-Halperin team, and I was delighted to come across one of their works I hadn’t seen before. Let’s Go Home explores the mysterious atmospheric beauty of homes one room at a time by describing the human experiences and memories they envelop. The illustrations may make you long for a big old house with a wrap-around porch, but I was also prompted to great gratitude for my own home and how its fostered my life and memories.

I bought it sight unseen because Homeplace is such a nice book.
Let’s Go Home explores the spaces of a house in living detail. Rylant puts in details like kisses on the head in the kitchen. Halperin litters all the spaces with toys, in particular. The front porch is claimed by the girls on a summer day; and that reflects my childhood to a T. (We had a wraparound porch, and the side part was permanently ours.). There are few rooms, no dining room and no basement, but what there are serve multiple purposes. Mama sets up her sewing machine in the living room; the attic stores paint buckets and basement-y things besides attic-y things. There is a bit of a Mary Englebreit feel to the place.
I will be exploring more of this illustrator’s show more work in the next month or so. show less

I'm tremendously enjoying this journey through children's illustrated books. Cynthia Rylant, another Newbery award winner for Missing May, has published many lovely children's books.
This one is wonderful!

While each page is packed with details that could at first seem overwhelming, when I took time to slowly study the images, I was in awe of the lovely details.

With the talent of a seasoned writer and illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin this team is a winning combination.

This is a journey through each room of a house and it includes special detailed images of unique items.

I like this book so much I may buy it.