Member Reviews
A cute story. Perfect for storytelling time for kids. It is a really colorful books with cute illustrations that kids would love to browse.
Your house, my house is an innovative book. There is the storyline within the text, but also subplots in the illustrations. Multiple animal families live in different units in a house. You can follow along with each family by the illustrations. It would be a lot of fun to get creative and imlrov the story as you read it. It would also be a great activity for kids to interpret their own stories as well.
Certainly a pleasant book, but not when you're trying to read it digitally – there is too much scrolling to and fro and zooming in for it to be fun. It's a very simple narrative, of a young rabbit and his birthday party – but there is so much else to be seen on the pages. We get a large format cutaway of a house, where – while the rabbits own most of the ground floor and the attic – many different animals live, including a poorly bear, a night owl, and some that are even moving in. So not only do we get the rabbit's day, we see clues to so much else that's happening. The attic spiders are busy, the hedgehogs are getting their place ready for a new arrival, and even the birds nesting in the tree outside have their story. Some secondary events even happen behind the house, and we see through the windows to the back some familiar characters from pantomime having a cameo appearance. The attention to detail, and the level of cooperative use of this book (it's hard to call it all reading when it will be pointing to, vocalising and discussing about a dozen small plots at once) are what will sell it. A great success, and a strong four stars.