This beautiful picture book evoked memories of my Grammy and Grandpop's house where my mom lived with her nine brothers and sisters. Sadly the farm and the house are no longer in our family.
Ms. Blackall guides the reader through the years as a family with twelve children experience the joys and sorrows growing up on a farm and then when they move away, pursuing their careers and interests. The house is based on an acutal dilapidated farmhouse on a property Ms. Blackall recently purchased. She used materials from the decaying house to illustrate this book.
The story structure reminds me of the nursery rhyme "This is the House that Jack Built". The exquiste illustrations invite the reader to pore over them and also provide mini stories and details to the main story. I like the illustrations more than the words.
*Highly recommend.
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