The House of Grass and Sky by E.B. Goodale, Mary Lyn Ray
Published by Candlewick Press on April 13, 2021
ISBN: 9781536200973
Pages: 32
Genres: Realistic Fiction
Format: Picture Book Fiction
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The old white saltbox house describes what makes a house a home from its point of view. Once it housed beloved families, but now it sits empty until the “right” family moves in to build new memories. An abundance of poetic language and pastoral watercolor illustrations create a thought provoking text that gives the reader a sense of time passing. This book can be paired with other books about houses, such as The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (1942), Home Place by Crescent Dragonwagon and Jerry Pinkney (1990), and The Little Blue Cottage by Kelly Jordan (2020) for a compare and contrast lesson or about the meaning of home.

Reviewed by Barb Rehmeyer, Liberty Library