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42) Precious home
Author
Publisher
TanTan Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A house is a place for shelter and rest, a place for playing and working, and a place for a family to live and love. But a house in Thailand looks nothing like a house in Mongolia, and the houses in Togo don't look like the houses in Russia. In each place, the people build their houses to accomodate their climate, customs and lifestyles, They end up with homes that vary in many ways.
46) Slade house
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
What's the best room in the house? Is it the kitchen with its wonderful aromas and goodies? Or is it the front porch, where guests flock to visit on summer nights? Maybe it's the cozy bedroom, when you are snuggling deep under the covers on winter mornings. With gracious text and enchanting images, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and acclaimed illustrator Wendy Anderson Halperin invite readers home -- to remind us why there's no place like it!
Author
Publisher
Kyle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In today's throwaway culture, there's a counter movement growing that urges us to "make do and mend". The Repair Shop has brought this waste-conscious message to an even wider audience, cementing itself as a BBC classic of the likes of Antiques Roadshow. [This] book concentrates on the show's much-loved experts, including woodworker and furniture restorer Will Kirk, clockmaker and mechanical wizard Steve Fletcher, silversmith Brenton West, saddler/leatherworker...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Most native peoples live in modern homes today, but years ago, they lived in vastly different dwellings. These inventive buildings were constructed of available natural resources, such as wood, grass, and adobe bricks, without the use of machinery we rely on today. Readers will appreciate the vivid photographs that accompany the interesting text and surprising fact boxes in this indispensable volume, beneficial to any elementary social studies classroom....
52) Home
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Identifies objects traditionally found in homes in Mali, including chairs, cooking pots, brooms, and sleeping mats.
53) The money pit
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that,...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1953.
Language
English
Description
Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literature, Ruth Krausspublished more than thirty books for children during a career that spanned forty years. Krauss and Sendak collaborated on eight books, and we are delighted to reintroduce four of these gems...
57) Grizzwold
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
Grizzwold the lovable bear has a tough time finding a place to live.
59) The best nest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mrs. Bird is unhappy with their home. She and Mr. Bird set forth to find a new nest, but learn that home hunting is not very easy.
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