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Building Our House
Contributor(s): Bean, Jonathan (Author), Bean, Jonathan (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0374380236 ISBN-13: 9780374380236
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2013

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Art
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Country Life

Dewey: E

LCCN: 2012004993

Age Level: 3-6

Grade Level: PreK-1

Lexile Measure: 640 AD (Adult Directed Text)

Physical Information: 0.5" H x 9.3" W x 12.1" L (1.14 lbs) 48 pages

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian

Awards: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, Nominee, Grades K-3, 2015
Monarch Award, Nominee, Grades K-3, 2016
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Seven to Ten, 2014
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, Winner, Picture Book, 2013
Charlotte Zolotow Award, Honor Book, Picture Book Text, 2014

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 Info

Quiz #: 156471
Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Bean, Jonathan: - JONATHAN BEAN received an M.F.A. from New York's School of Visual Arts and now lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, for At Night and Building Our House, he is also the illustrator of Big Snow, two picture books by Lauren Thompson, and Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood.Bean, Jonathan: - JONATHAN BEAN received an M.F.A. from New York's School of Visual Arts and now lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, for At Night and Building Our House, he is also the illustrator of Big Snow, two picture books by Lauren Thompson, and Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood.

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