Building Our House

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013

In this unique construction book for kids who love tools and trucks, readers join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in town and set out to build a new one in the country. Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is here. And at every step their lucky kids are watching and getting their hands dirty, in page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities

As he imagines it through the eyes of his older sister, Building Our House is Jonathan Bean's retelling of his own family's true experience, and includes an afterword with photographs from the author's collection.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 01/08/2013
ISBN: 9780374380236
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 12.10h x 9.30w x 0.50d
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Winner
Award: Charlotte Zolotow Award - Honor Book

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 01/13/2013 pg. 16
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2012 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2012
Booklist 01/01/2013 pg. 120
Shelf Awareness 01/18/2013
New York Times Book Review 01/20/2013 pg. 22
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2013 pg. 60
School Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 71
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2013 pg. 284
Kirkus Best Picture Books 11/15/2013 pg. 44
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/08/2013 pg. 35
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 156471 / Building Our House
Reading Level: 3.8 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5