A Home Again

Description

Age range 3 to 6 After the last brick is laid, a family moves into a brand-new house. As the family grows, the house delights in the sound of laughter echoing in its halls and the pitter-patter of little feet traversing its floors and realizes it is no longer just a house. It has become a home-their home. One day, the family packs up, and with tears in their eyes, they say goodbye. The house doesn't know if it can ever be happy again until a special couple appears and it begins to feel a sliver of hope. Perhaps it can become a home once more... Told from the perspective of a house, this story's heartfelt text and beautiful illustrations convey a warmth of feeling as two families change and grow at different times within the same four walls.

Colleen Rowan Kosinski is the author-illustrator of Lilla's Sunflowers and A Promise Stitched in Time. She received her BA from Rutgers University in visual art, is an alumna of Philadelphia's Moore College of Art, and spent many years as a successful freelance fine artist. Colleen calls New Jersey her home and resides there with her family. Learn more at www.colleenrowankosinski.com. Valeria Docampo has a background in fine arts and has also been a teacher. She is the illustrator of many books for publishers around the world, including La Grande Fabrique de Mots, which has been translated into thirty languages. Originally from Argentina, she now makes her home in France with her family. Learn more at www.valeriadocampo.com.

"The expert use of light and dark creates beautiful, emotional contrasts of warmth and isolation-a wonderful match of both verbal and visual tone...Heartfelt and filled with possible connections for families." -Kirkus Reviews "Sleekly rendered acrylic and colored pencil art...casts the house's interior in rich chiaroscuro...in this familiar narrative of being left behind and learning to love again." -Publishers Weekly