If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
by Giles Laroche
Houghton Mifflin, 2011. Unpaged. Nonfiction.
Employing "intricate bas-relief cut-paper collages," Giles Laroche draws children into the worlds of different kinds of houses in different times and places. In addition to the charming pictures, almost every double-page spread includes a list of information: house type, building materials, location, date when that style of house was popular, and a fascinating fact (e.g., streets in Greek villages on the Aegean Sea were laid out in maze-like patterns "to confuse pirates and other invaders"). Treehouses, log cabins, modern-day cave dwellings, and fortress chateaux are a few of the many housing styles so artfully presented here. A lovely, horizon-broadening book.
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