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The heart of our home

A child reflects on the heart of their family home, the wooden kitchen table, as a place for meals, homework, celebrations, and memories through times of joy and sorrow.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Washington, Janelle (Author, Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2025.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Kitchens > Juvenile fiction. Tables > Juvenile fiction. Home > Juvenile fiction. Families > Juvenile fiction. Family life > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	A child reflects on the heart of their family home, the wooden kitchen table, as a place for meals, homework, celebrations, and memories through times of joy and sorrow.
Physical Description:	32 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Audience:	Ages 3-6 Grades K-1
ISBN:	9781250357366 1250357365
Author Notes:	Janelle Washington is a paper-cut artist, illustrator, and recipient of the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator for illustrating Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy. Janelle recently moved back to her hometown, Richmond, Virginia, where she spends time with her parents, sitting around their kitchen table. When she isn't at her childhood home, she enjoys being outside in the sun or inside, cutting her paper-cut designs. The Heart of Our Home is her authorial debut. She is a member of the Guild of American Papercutters.