Building our house
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
| Main Author: | Bean, Jonathan, 1979- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374380236 (hardcover) 0374380236 (hardcover) |
| Author Notes: |
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. |